Overview
- The NYPD’s June 3 report showed the fewest murders, shooting incidents and shooting victims recorded for the first five months of the year.
- Citywide major crime fell 10.6% in May with about 1,147 fewer reported offenses compared with last May and a 6.2% drop year to date.
- Validated hate crimes rose 74.4% in May to 68 confirmed incidents, with 41 of those targeting Jewish New Yorkers and 98 initial complaints processed by the Hate Crimes Task Force.
- Police credit a precision policing strategy for the drops in violent crime, citing 20 gang takedowns so far this year, nearly 2,000 guns seized and a Summer Violence Reduction Plan that will put thousands of officers into hot spots.
- Beneath the headline declines the picture is mixed: felony assaults ticked up 0.4%, the Bronx led borough-level reductions after a patrol reorganization, and transit and public-housing major crime both showed declines.