New York City saw a sharp decline in homicides and shootings last year, according to the city's annual management report released Monday by Mayor Eric Adams.
The report said that while some areas, such as tourist-filled Midtown Manhattan, continue to see spikes in crime, citywide conditions will generally improve between July 1, 2023 and June 30, 2024 compared to the same period last year.
Murder and manslaughter cases fell from 424 to 359, a steep drop of 15 percent.
Shootings fell 18 percent, from 1,140 to 932, and the report also noted a significant drop in gang-related violence.
Gun arrests fell 10 percent, from 6,837 to 6,129.
During the same period, theft cases also fell 13 percent, from 15,054 to 13,142.
Rapes fell 2 percent, from 1,090 to 1,070, while grand theft and serious crimes on transportation systems fell 3 percent, according to the report.
Still, overall serious crime fell by just 1 percent, and, as The Post reported Sunday, crime has soared this year in New York's tourist meccas, including Times Square.
“Every day we work hard to make our city safer and more affordable,” Adams said in a statement.
“Since my Administration took office, we have removed more than 18,000 illegal firearms from our streets and focused on strategic, data-driven policing to keep New Yorkers safe, and these numbers show our efforts are working – we've seen an overall decrease in crime, both above and below ground, and gang-related incidents are at their lowest since 2014,” said Hizzoner, a former NYPD inspector and transit officer.
He thanked the New York Police Department for the progress it has made.
But in Midtown, dire NYPD crime statistics show it remains a major battle for law enforcement.
As of Sept. 8, the Manhattan North Precinct, which covers areas such as Radio City Music Hall, Rockefeller Plaza, the Theater District and St. Patrick's Cathedral, saw robberies surge by more than 90% and felony assaults increase by nearly 73% compared to the same period in 2023.
Murders on the city's subway system are also up 60% so far this year, although overall crime on the railroad is down.
As of September 8, eight people had been murdered on subway cars or in subway stations, up from just five during the same period last year, according to NYPD data. The surge in subway homicides is on track to hit a 25-year high of 10 in 2022.
Adams has touted the positive crime statistics at a time when the NYPD is embroiled in a federal corruption investigation into abuse of power that led to Police Commissioner Edward Cavan resigning last week. No one, including Cavan, has been accused of wrongdoing. Tom Donlon has been named interim chief.
