New York Metropolis is ending the primary three months of the yr with the bottom variety of murders ever recorded, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the NYPD touted Thursday afternoon.
Mamdani and Commissioner Jessica Tisch revealed that, in line with NYPD information, main crime throughout the 5 boroughs is down by greater than 5%, bolstered by a report low variety of taking pictures incidents.
Between January and March of this yr, the town recorded 54 homicide and 139 taking pictures incidents, Tisch stated. The earlier report low for murders was 60 killings in 2018.
“These outcomes are usually not taking place by probability, they’re pushed by a precision policing technique: going after the weapons, taking down the violent gangs and placing officers on foot posts the place they’re wanted most and when they’re wanted most,” Tisch stated.
The briefing comes amid two current high-profile shootings within the final 24 hours. Early Thursday, NYPD officers shot and killed a person allegedly arm with a gun who was on parole within the Bronx. And a 7-month-old was killed by an obvious stray bullet Wednesday afternoon in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
The kid’s loss of life comes amid a sustained interval of dropping crime in New York Metropolis. Via Sunday, the NYPD had recorded 52 killings thus far in 2026, down 29% from the identical interval final yr. The town is on monitor to complete the primary quarter with killings and shootings close to their lowest in a long time.
