Gov. Kathy Hochul, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch are hailing a historic drop in shootings last year.
“In 2025, New York City recorded 688 shooting incidents, the lowest number in the city’s history. That didn’t just break the previous record set in 2018, it shattered it, with 66 fewer shootings than that benchmark year,” Tisch said at a Tuesday morning news conference. “In the month of December, shootings fell 43%, with just 35 shooting incidents citywide. That is the lowest number of shootings ever in any month of year, beating the previous record of 36 shooting incidents set in February of 2018. We see the headlines and we hear the pundits talk about crime being out of control in our city. These numbers tell a very different story.”
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Tisch said New York City has pushed gun violence down “at a scale unlike any other city in the country.”
“Make no mistake about it. These reductions are the product of our precision policing strategy,” Tisch said. “Putting an unprecedented number of cops on the streets, and in the neighborhoods driving violence, including thousands of additional officers on foot posts and conducting targeted takedowns of the most violent gangs in our city.”…