Overview
- January–February tallies hit new lows with 83 shootings, 97 shooting victims and 32 murders, according to NYPD data.
- Overall major crime fell nearly 8% year over year in February, with declines in burglary, robbery, felony assault, grand larceny and auto theft.
- Transit crime rose to 192 incidents in February, up 18.5% from a year earlier, and the NYPD increased daily subway staffing by about 140 officers.
- NYPD officials linked the transit uptick to February’s extreme cold and reported ejecting 61% fewer riders from the system during that period.
- The department’s public hate-crime reports now list only confirmed cases, recording 38 in February including 21 anti-Jewish incidents, and reported rapes rose nearly 2% after a state expansion of the legal definition.