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…