Overview
- The city recorded 688 shooting incidents and 856 people shot in 2025, both the lowest totals on record, including just 35 shootings in December.
- Homicides fell to 305 for the year, down 77 from 2024, while robberies declined nearly 10%—about 1,600 fewer cases—and grand theft auto fell around 5%.
- Major crime in the subway system decreased 4% with transit robberies at record lows, and the administration described 2025 as the safest subways since 2009 outside the pandemic years.
- Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch cited a deliberate, data-driven strategy with targeted deployments and gun seizures, and said the NYPD will maintain this approach.
- Officials flagged remaining concerns, noting a slight rise in felony assaults, a growing share of youth-involved violence, and a 16% increase in reported rapes linked to a legal definition change, as the mayor advances a Department of Community Safety proposal.