{"id":254404,"date":"2026-06-03T22:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T22:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/254404\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T22:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T22:42:07","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-nypd-murder-down-citywide-despite-violent-week-in-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/254404\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Nypd Murder Down Citywide Despite Violent Week In Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The NYPD says that in the first five months of this year, murders were at the lowest level recorded for any year&#8217;s first five months.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">It comes after News 12 previously reported six people who died from a shooting or stabbing in Brooklyn in the last week of May.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">News 12 previously reported about a 41-year-old man fatally shot at a laundromat in <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/1-man-dead-another-injured-in-flatlands-shooting\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Flatlands<\/a>, a 38-year-old man fatally stabbed in <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/2026\/05\/29\/police-identify-victim-of-cypress-hills-fatal-stabbing\/5ZLUN3iM5xhULzucQvteVc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cypress Hills<\/a>, a man stabbed to death in <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/2026\/05\/28\/one-man-stabbed-another-slashed-in-sunset-park\/v7HrI8U5EBUHrinZFQJ7P\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sunset Park<\/a>, a man stabbed to death in <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/newyork.news12.com\/man-fatally-stabbed-in-canarsie-among-4-killed-in-violent-week-across-brooklyn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canarsie<\/a>, and two women stabbed to death over the weekend inside a <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/2-women-found-stabbed-to-death-in-park-slope-apartment-building\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Park Slope <\/a>apartment building.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">It&#8217;s important to note that the majority of these incidents were stabbings, as the NYPD says Brooklyn led the city with a 47.6% reduction in shooting incidents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NYPD says that in the first five months of this year, murders were at the lowest level&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-254404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254404","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=254404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}