The Large Apple went 5 days with out a single taking pictures sufferer in a milestone that hasn’t been reached in 30 years, the NYPD introduced Thursday night time.
“This is the longest we’ve gone without a shooting victim since the beginning of the CompStat era,” the division stated in reference to the police administration system it created within the Nineties.
Cops credited the “brave work that the members of the NYPD do every day” for the five-day interval, which lasted from Saturday night to Thursday night.
However simply 4 minutes after the division boasted in regards to the streak, it was snapped when a 34-year-old man was shot a number of instances within the leg in Brooklyn’s East New York neighborhood at round 10:15 p.m.
The gunshot sufferer went to Brookdale Hospital in secure situation and no arrests have been made, in response to police.
The NYPD had recorded 45 taking pictures victims up to now this 12 months as of Sunday — the identical variety of taking pictures victims within the metropolis over the identical time interval final 12 months.
There have been 29 shootings in 2025 as of final Sunday in comparison with 39 over the identical time span in 2024.
In authorities’ push to decelerate gun violence within the metropolis, Mayor Eric Adams introduced this week that the NYPD has seized greater than 20,000 unlawful firearms since he took workplace in 2022.
That determine is about 3,000 extra weapons eliminated in comparison with the earlier three-year interval, in response to officers.
