unveiled new crime stat<\/a> numbers.<\/p>\nNYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said major crimes are down in the city so far this year. Michael Nagle for NY Post<\/p>\n
\u201cCitywide, major crime dropped with over 1,400 fewer reported crimes compared to 2025, murders and shootings reached their lowest levels ever recorded for a first quarter, and our public housing developments had the safest start to the year for gun violence in history,\u201d Tisch said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese results are driven by our precision policing strategy to go after guns, take down violent gangs, and put officers on foot posts where they are needed most,\u201d she added. <\/p>\n
Hate crimes are bucking the trend. <\/p>\n
The number of confirmed hate crimes in the city jumped from 128 over the first quarter of 2025 to 143 over the same period this year for an 11.7% increase \u2014 with 78 of the total described as anti-Jewish incidents, making up 55% of the total. <\/p>\n
The largest percentage increase came in anti-Muslim increase, with 12 so far this year compared to just 5 over the first three months of 2025, or an increase of 140%. <\/p>\n
Mayor Zohran Mamdani said anti-Muslim hate4 crimes are up 140% over last year. Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cThe hate crimes that we are seeing really vary across the board,\u201d Tisch told reporters Thursday. \u201cIt could be something an act of violence. It could be drawing a symbol on a wall, like, for example, a swastika.\u201d <\/p>\n
She said the department is also changing how they list hate crimes, with two sets of statistics to reflect reported hate crimes and hate crimes confirmed by police. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhat I can tell you is that the NYPD has released this month the gold standard for data about hate crimes,\u201d Tisch said. \u201cWe\u2019ve done this in consultation with experts in the field, and that is data about reported crimes and data about confirmed crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said rapes were up over the first quarter \u2014 523 this year compared to 475 last year \u2014 which she attributed in part to a change in state law in 2024 that broadened the definition of rape.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, major crimes citywide dipped 5.3% over the first quarter of 2026 compared to last year, with 25,582 so far this year compared to 27,003 over the same period last year. <\/p>\n
Tisch said the year started with a bump upward in subway crime, but the trend didn\u2019t last.<\/p>\n
Murders in the city over the first quarter of 2026 are the lowest in decades, police said. NYC Gov<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe in January and February, we did see an uptick in crime on our subways,\u201d she said. \u201cI believe a significant portion of that was related to adjustments that we made in our ejection strategy based on the Code Blue, based on the cold temperatures that we are seeing.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe ended the quarter down, actually 1% in subway crime,\u201d she added. \u201cSo we had a very good month of March. We basically brought crime fall in all categories in transit, and again, once the weather normalizes and we can go back to our normal ejection strategy in transit.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe also added 150 officers to transit at the end of February, and those officers, I think, also made it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The stats also show that crime in public housing fell by 7.2% so far this year. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe stories of these numbers in aggregate is one of remarkable progress,\u201d Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Thursday. \u201cThey speak to an NYPD using every lever at its disposal to deliver a safer New York City to all who call it home.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Big Apple murder numbers are the lowest they\u2019ve been in decades, but hate crimes are up almost 12%…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[303,10685,5302,57,238,9,56,63,65,64,103,31834,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-183744","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-crime","9":"tag-hate-crimes","10":"tag-jessica-tisch","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-murders","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-nyc-headlines","17":"tag-nyc-news","18":"tag-nypd","19":"tag-statistics","20":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183744","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=183744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}