Overview
- Final 2025 data show 688 shootings (down 24% from 2024) and 856 shooting victims, with just 35 shootings in December, the lowest monthly total ever recorded.
- New York City recorded 305 murders last year, about a 20% decline from 2024, as overall major crime fell roughly 3% on drops in robbery, burglary, grand larceny and auto theft.
- The transit system logged its safest year since 2009 excluding pandemic years, with major subway crime down 4%, transit robberies at record lows, and transit shootings down 62.5% with victims down nearly 79%.
- Officials credited a deliberate, data-driven policing strategy and large-scale gun removals for the declines, and they emphasized continued focus on violent crime and quality-of-life enforcement.
- Challenges flagged by city leaders include a 16% rise in reported rapes tied in part to a 2024 legal definition change and increased youth involvement in shootings, as Mayor Zohran Mamdani pursues a Department of Community Safety and Tisch signals no immediate strategy changes.