New York City’s all-time record low shootings and gun violence milestone revealed this week is no accident. The NYPD and city officials, along with crime experts, agreed that a combination of efforts ...

Murders decreased by 8.6%, from 58 to 53, while shooting incidents decreased by 30.7%, 241 to 167. Overall crime in the city decreased by 5.4%, from 9,330 incidents in 2020 to 8,824 this year.

In a statement, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch credited the drop in shootings and crime overall to the recent summer-violence reduction zones in which 2,000 officers are patrolling in 72 ...

Since the plan’s implementation on May 5, major crime in these zones during deployment hours has decreased by 20.2%, with shootings down 50.6%, felony assaults down 28.5% and robberies down 23.3%.