Big Apple shootings have plummeted to all-time lows so far this year, the NYPD said Monday — as subway crime in October also tied the month’s record low in 2020, when the city was a pandemic ghost town.
There were 744 people shot in 596 incidents in the Big Apple between January and October, breaking the previous record low set in 2018 when 768 people were shot in 641 incidents, the department said.
“We are not just beating the record, we are crushing it,’’ Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at Monday’s graduation ceremony for new recruits.
“This isn’t luck or coincidence — it’s the direct result of our precision policing strategy and the relentless work of the men and women of the NYPD who carry out this plan and make our city safer,” the top cop said in a statement.
“These historic public safety milestones are reaching every corner of New York City, and I thank Mayor Adams for his continuous support of the NYPD.”
The number of murders in the city so far this year also tied a 2018 all-time low record, with 18 homicides reported — or nearly half of the 35 killings investigated by the NYPD for the same period last year, police said.
Last month also set record lows for transit crime.
There were 154 felony offenses reported on the rails in October, tying the previous record for the month set in 2020, when ridership hit historic lows during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The subway crime stats for each of those years included a single murder.
Last month’s sole subway slaying involved the senseless beating death of Italian immigrant Nicola Tanzi, 64, who was suddenly attacked by a psycho inside the Jay Street-MetroTech station.
In October 2020, there was a deadly knifing of a 20-year-old man during a clash with a stranger on the J/Z train platform at Chambers Street, police said.
The other subway crimes that occurred last month involved 47 felony assaults, 69 grand larcenies, 36 robberies and one burglary.
In 2020, there were 38 felony assaults, 74 grand larcenies, 41 robberies and no burglaries in the city’s underground, statistics show.
Meanwhile, overall hate crimes citywide also dipped 22 percent last month over the same period in 2024 — with 47 bias-related offenses tallied so far this year compared to 60 last year, police said.
Only anti-Asian hate crimes increased in October — with four such incidents reported thanks to the random one-man hate crime spree allegedly carried out by a madman with several dozen prior arrests in Lower Manhattan last week.
The majority of the hate crimes last month targeted Jewish victims — reflecting a trend seen in the city since Hamas’ attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
A total of 29 anti-Jewish offenses were reported last month, slightly down from the 31 tallied in October 2024.
Additionally, robberies on the city’s streets dipped by about 12 percent last month, marking the lowest level for an October since 2020, cops said.
Felony assaults are trending down so far this year, too, after four back-to-back years of increases, and they dipped by about 7 percent in October, the data shows.
Since the pandemic, nearly 40% of the felony assaults reported citywide have been tied to domestic violence, according to the NYPD.
Burglaries also declined by nearly 9 percent last month – marking the third-lowest October in recorded history and the third consecutive year that crime has trended downward.
Grand larceny dipped by just under 2 percent in October and is down overall for a third consecutive year.
Reported rapes increased by nearly 9 percent last month compared to the same period in 2024 — a spike that the NYPD attributed in part to state “legislative changes” enacted last year that “rightfully broadened the legal definition of rape” to include other forms of sexual assault.
Crime in the city’s housing developments meanwhile declined by nearly 5 percent this year.
The NYPD credited its Fall Violence Reduction Plan, which targets high-crime areas, for helping to keep crime at bay.
Through the plan, up to 1,800 uniformed cops have been assigned to nightly foot posts on the streets and in subways and housing developments within 54 “zones” involving 31 “patrol bureaus” citywide.
Last year, there were just 16 zones spanning 10 bureaus, police said.
So far this year, NYPD detectives also have carried out 57 gang-related takedowns — with the department seizing more than 4,625 illegal guns since January and 24,385 since Adams took office in 2022.
“A safer city has always been our administration’s North Star, and that’s exactly what we delivered in October with another record-breaking month of crime declines thanks to the brave men and women of the NYPD,” Adams said.
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