carried out by a madman<\/a> with several dozen prior arrests in Lower Manhattan last week.\u00a0<\/p>\nThe majority of the hate crimes last month targeted Jewish victims \u2014 reflecting a trend seen in the city since Hamas\u2019 attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.<\/p>\n
This month\u2019s record low in subway crime tied the previous record set in 2020, when ridership hit historic lows during the COVID-19 pandemic. Christopher Sadowski<\/p>\n
A total of 29 anti-Jewish offenses were reported last month, slightly down from the 31 tallied in October 2024.<\/p>\n
Additionally, robberies on the city\u2019s streets dipped by about 12 percent last month, marking the lowest level for an October since 2020, cops said.<\/p>\n
Felony assaults are trending down so far this year, too, after four back-to-back years of increases, and they dipped by about 7 percent in October, the data shows.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Since the pandemic, nearly 40% of the felony assaults reported citywide have been tied to domestic violence, according to the NYPD.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The NYPD credited a targeted plan for helping to keep crime at bay.\u00a0 Helayne Seidman<\/p>\n
Burglaries also declined by nearly 9 percent last month \u2013 marking the third-lowest October in recorded history and the third consecutive year that crime has trended downward.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Grand larceny dipped by just under 2 percent in October and is down overall for a third consecutive year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Reported rapes increased by nearly 9 percent last month compared to the same period in 2024 \u2014 a spike that the NYPD attributed in part to state \u201clegislative changes\u201d enacted last year that \u201crightfully broadened the legal definition of rape\u201d to include other forms of sexual assault.<\/p>\n
Crime in the city\u2019s housing developments meanwhile declined by nearly 5 percent this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The NYPD credited its Fall Violence Reduction Plan, which targets high-crime areas, for helping to keep crime at bay.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Through the plan, up to 1,800 uniformed cops have been assigned to nightly foot posts on the streets and in subways and housing developments within 54 \u201czones\u201d involving 31 \u201cpatrol bureaus\u201d citywide.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Last year, there were just 16 zones spanning 10 bureaus, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
So far this year, NYPD detectives also have carried out 57 gang-related takedowns \u2014 with the department seizing more than 4,625 illegal guns since January and 24,385 since Adams took office in 2022.<\/p>\n
\u201cA safer city has always been our administration\u2019s North Star, and that\u2019s exactly what we delivered in October with another record-breaking month of crime declines thanks to the brave men and women of the NYPD,\u201d Adams said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Big Apple shootings have plummeted to all-time lows so far this year, the NYPD said Monday \u2014 as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[303,5302,57,9,56,63,65,64,103,8192,3980,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-27577","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-jessica-tisch","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-ny","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-nyc-headlines","15":"tag-nyc-news","16":"tag-nypd","17":"tag-police-investigations","18":"tag-shootings","19":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27577","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=27577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}