NYPD Reports Record-Low Shootings Through November as Subway and Retail Crime Fall

Overview

• From January through November, the city logged 652 shooting incidents and 812 shooting victims, the lowest tallies for that span in recorded NYPD data.
• November recorded 16 murders, tying the monthly record low, with no homicides reported in Queens or Staten Island.
• Transit crime fell 24.8% year over year in November, marking the safest November for the subways outside the pandemic years, according to police.
• Officials reported a roughly 20% year-over-year drop in retail theft in November as targeted monitoring increased at high-propensity locations.
• The NYPD noted divergent trends with hate-crime investigations up 50% and felony assault up 1.5%, with a large share tied to domestic violence and a new Domestic Violence Unit launched to address it.