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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
“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.<\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
The child\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City is finishing the first three months of the year with the lowest number of murders…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-183554","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-ny","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-nyc-headlines","12":"tag-nyc-news","13":"tag-nypd"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}