New York City is finishing the first three months of the year with the lowest number of murders ever recorded, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the NYPD touted Thursday afternoon.
Mamdani and Commissioner Jessica Tisch revealed that, according to NYPD data, major crime across the five boroughs is down by more than 5%, bolstered by a record low number of shooting incidents.
Between January and March of this year, the city recorded 54 murder and 139 shooting incidents, Tisch said. The previous record low for murders was 60 killings in 2018.
“These results are not happening by chance, they are driven by a precision policing strategy: going after the guns, taking down the violent gangs and putting officers on foot posts where they are needed most and when they are needed most,” Tisch said.
The briefing comes amid two recent high-profile shootings in the last 24 hours. Early Thursday, NYPD officers shot and killed a man allegedly arm with a gun who was on parole in the Bronx. And a 7-month-old was killed by an apparent stray bullet Wednesday afternoon in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
The child’s death comes amid a sustained period of dropping crime in New York City. Through Sunday, the NYPD had recorded 52 killings so far in 2026, down 29% from the same period last year. The city is on track to finish the first quarter with killings and shootings near their lowest in decades.