NYC Murders, Shootings Dropped Significantly In April: NYPD

New York City NY

04 May, 2022

10:22 AM

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NEW YORK CITY — Gun violence in New York City took a significant dip in April, despite a high-profile mass shooting in the subway that left 23 people injured, according to newly released NYPD crime statistics. Shootings fell 29.1 percent compared to last April, although there were still 105 incidents across the city, data shows. Murders also fell 38 percent compared to April 2021, according to the data. But even with the drop, 31 people died by another's hand, the data shows. NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell touted the declines. She argued they showed the success of anti-gun policing efforts, as well as a controversial revival of "broken windows"-style enforcement efforts against quality of life offenses. "The women and men of the NYPD are making noticeable headway through our enhanced patrol deployments both on the street and below ground in the subway system, a concentrated effort to take even more illegal firearms out of the hands of criminals, and a renewed attention to persistent quality-of-life offenses – guided directly by complaints from the people we serve," she said in a statement. But the decline seen in murders and shootings didn't extend to other crimes. Overall city crime increased by 34.2 percent in April compared to the year before, according to the statistics. The surge was fueled by a 43.5 percent increase in grand larceny, a 41 percent rise in robberies and a 39.1 percent escalation in burglaries, data shows.