Main crimes continued to dip within the Massive Apple final month, with all-time lows in shootings and gunshot victims — regardless of a troubling bump in homicide and rape.
Newly launched NYPD statistics present that crime within the 5 boroughs was down by 6.7% throughout the board in August in comparison with the identical month final yr, together with an 8.2% drop in robberies and near-19% dip in citywide burglaries over the identical interval.
Shootings and gun victims have additionally hit an all-time low via the primary eight months of the yr, with 489 incidents and 611 victims, besting the earlier file of 502 and 612 in 2018, police mentioned.
The one blemish is a 33% bounce in murders final month — the results of a number of lethal taking pictures sprees within the Bronx and Manhattan — and a continued rise within the variety of Massive Apple rapes.
Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch nonetheless praised the division’s efficiency, which included a 22% drip in transit crime final month in comparison with the identical month final yr, the stats present.
“Under floor on our subways, we’ve got minimize crime all the way down to record-lows, excluding the pandemic years,” Tisch mentioned in a press release Tuesday.
“Our focus has been on taking unlawful weapons off the streets, arresting violent gang members, and deploying our most respected useful resource — the women and men of the NYPD — on foot posts the place they’re most wanted, and the outcomes are clear,” the commissioner added. “Our technique is working, and our cops are driving down crime.”
The information reveals that felony assaults, grand larceny and automobile theft had been additionally down in August.
Fueling the bump in murders — and a 1.1% rise in shootings final month — had been a sequence of lethal incidents within the Bronx and elsewhere.
A gang-related taking pictures at a basketball event at a Bronx park on Aug. 23 left one lifeless, a 17-year-old lady clinging to life and 4 others wounded in one of many months’ bloodiest incidents.
The incident was a part of a spree of violence that continues to plague the forty seventh Precinct, which has seen a 50% enhance in shootings to date this yr, stats present.
These numbers distinction borough-wide stats that present that shootings had been down throughout the borough final month, from 27 in comparison with 34 in August 2024, and the variety of taking pictures victims dipped from 49 to 44 this yr over the identical span.
Over the primary eight months of the yr, taking pictures incidents within the northernmost borough had been at 186 with 228 victims, down from 224 and 285, respectively, over the identical interval in 2024.
Different boroughs noticed outbursts of violence final yr — earlier within the month, a taking pictures at a Brooklyn hookah lounge left three lifeless and 9 wounded,
In the meantime, rapes within the metropolis additionally proceed to extend, with 160 reported final month in comparison with 129 throughout August 2024, for a 24% enhance, in line with the information.
The 2025 quantity is the very best within the metropolis in no less than six years.
The NYPD mentioned rape stays a priority, however mentioned the quantity is deceptive because of “legislative modifications” that broaden the definition of rape and “consists of further types of sexual assault.”
“Many reported circumstances concerned people recognized to one another,” a division spokesperson mentioned. “The NYPD continues to encourage survivors of sexual assault to come back ahead and report these incidents.”
Officers additionally be aware that, regardless of final month’s enhance, murders within the 5 boroughs are down 19.6% to date this yr in comparison with the identical time span final yr, with 209 this yr in comparison with 260 in 2024.
That’s a fraction of the two,262 Massive Apple murders in 1990, and 649 in 2001, the stats present.
“However even with the large steps we’ve taken in making our metropolis safer, we all know that one crime remains to be one crime too many,” Mayor Eric Adams mentioned in a press release, “and plenty of heartbreaking incidents stay on the forefront of individuals’s minds.
“We see a lot promise in New York Metropolis, and it’s readily obvious that our public security plan is working,” he added. “We are going to proceed to make changes as we see spikes, however due to the courageous women and men of the NYPD, New York continues to be America’s most secure massive metropolis.”
