The record-low number of shootings in July was the most impressive statistic veteran NYPD Chief of Crime Control Strategies Michael LiPetri has seen in his 33 years on the job, he told The Post.<\/p>\n
\u201cI told the police commissioner, \u2018I think July was the most impressive shooting stat that, that really, the NYPD has had since the start of the CompStat era,\u2019\u201d he recalled Thursday.<\/p>\n
There were 57 shootings in July \u2014 a 24 percent drop \u2014 despite the police department dealing with major events across the city \u2014 compared to 75 in the same month last year.<\/p>\n
Michael LiPetri, NYPD chief, is seen during a press conference at police headquarters on April 2, 2026, in New York City. (Michael Nagle for NY Post) Michael Nagle for NY Post<\/p>\n
The number of shootings in the hot month hasn\u2019t been lower anytime in recent history, said LiPetri, who joined the Force around the same time CompStat, a tool for tracking city shootings, was developed in 1994.<\/p>\n
He credited to the NYPD\u2019s strong focus on the department\u2019s 73 violence reduction zones<\/a> despite the \u201cmassive logistical demands\u201d of the Sail 250 event<\/a> and Fourth of July celebrations, the FIFA World Cup, and the Knicks NBA <\/a>championship win and ticker-tape parade.<\/p>\n \u201cAll those officers in those violence reduction zones across the city were walking footposts, doing tough work,\u201d LiPetri said.<\/p>\n Police are seen at the scene where two people were shot on Boston Road at East Tremont Avenue in the Bronx on Thursday, August 6, 2026. (Photo: Christopher Sadowski 2026) Christopher Sadowski for NY Post<\/p>\n The zones were created to focus on areas around \u201ccrime clusters\u201d even when they cross into traditional precinct boundaries.<\/p>\n \u201cThey stayed in those zones seven days a week at the right times, even when we had everything else going on,\u201d LePetri continued. \u201cWe did not touch our violence reduction zones, and we maintained that steady presence.\u201d<\/p>\n This deployment strategy allowed detective squads and the Gun Violence Suppression Division to \u201ccontinue their work unabated,\u201d he said, leading to the successful takedown of several violent crews, including two in Queens.<\/p>\n Police investigate the scene of a shooting at 104 Elliot Place in the Bronx on July 25, 2026. A 12-year-old boy was shot in the shoulder and later died at a hospital, and two adult men were also shot and expected to survive. (Kevin C. Downs) Kevin C. Downs for NY Post<\/p>\n \u201cWe are taking the violence drivers in New York City off the street,\u201d LiPetri said. \u201cWe are really honing in on those trigger pullers, but also the individuals who get arrested with a firearm and have open cases or are part of a crew.\u201d<\/p>\n A key to the decrease in shootings was daily coordination with the district attorneys\u2019 offices to prioritize the prosecutions, \u201censuring a focused, persistent response to the individuals driving the city\u2019s gun violence,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n He called the department\u2019s targeted use of CompStat to help determine precisely where to put officers a game changer.<\/p>\n Shooting victim Jacob Freytes is seen in this undated photo provided by his mother, Migdalia Martinez. Freytes, the son of a retired NYPD detective, was struck and killed by a stray bullet near his Bronx home on July 25.<\/p>\n \u201cWe datamine and we datamine and we know where to put the cops,\u201d he said. \u201cBut it\u2019s not just that. They\u2019re not just standing there. They\u2019re actually engaging, and using their discretion and using precision policing, getting that intelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The record-low number of shootings in July was the most impressive statistic veteran NYPD Chief of Crime Control…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[3283,128,40550,4542,57,9,24,1104,63,103,3980,129,131,130,58,14771],"class_list":["post-316899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-arrests","tag-bronx","tag-fourth-of-july","tag-guns","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-shootings","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-us-news","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316899","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=316899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}