The Big Apple has gone five days without a single shooting victim, a milestone not reached in 30 years, the NYPD announced Thursday night.
“This is the longest we have gone without a shooting victim since the beginning of the Compstat era,” the department said in reference to the police management system it created in the 1990s.
The officer praised the “brave work NYPD members do every day” during the five-day period, which lasted from Saturday evening to Thursday evening.
But just four minutes after the department boasted about the streak, it was snapped when a 34-year-old man was shot multiple times in the leg in Brooklyn's East New York neighborhood around 10:15 p.m.
Police say the gunshot victim went to Brookdale Hospital in stable condition and no arrests have been made.
The NYPD has recorded 45 shooting victims so far this year as of Sunday. This is the same number of shooting victims in the city during the same period last year.
In 2025, there were 29 shootings in 2025, compared to 39 in 2025.
In a push for authorities to slow gun violence in the city, Mayor Eric Adams announced this week that the NYPD has seized more than 20,000 illegal firearms since taking office in 2022.
Officials say that number removes about 3,000 guns compared to the previous three years.
