Overview

• Through the first eight months of 2025, the NYPD logged 489 shooting incidents and 611 victims, the lowest tallies on record, as overall major crime fell 6.7% in August year over year.
• Transit crime reached some of its lowest levels on record in August with subway robberies at record lows, while retail theft declined 22% last month and 12% year to date, according to police data.
• Despite the broader declines, murders increased 33% in August, though the city remains down nearly 20% in homicides for the year with 209 recorded versus 260 in the same period of 2024.
• Brooklyn diverged from the city trend in August with a 16% rise in shootings and a 122% jump in shooting victims, including a Crown Heights lounge attack that killed three and injured nine.
• Officials cite a multi-pronged strategy that includes the Summer Violence Reduction Plan, 55 gang busts yielding 396 arrests, and a surge of recruits—1,100 sworn in August and 2,911 so far this year—as the Bronx received additional officers following recent shootings.