In a rare and significant milestone, the New York Police Department (NYPD) has announced that, for the first time in 30 years, there were no reported shooting victims in New York City over a five-day period. This achievement marks a notable shift in the city's ongoing battle against gun violence, offering a glimmer of hope amid broader concerns about public safety.
“This is the longest we’ve gone without a shooting victim since the beginning of the CompStat era,” the NYPD said, referring to the police management system it created in the 1990s.
Last year, the Big Apple averaged more than two shootings a day.
Although it probably is not connected, I would be doing myself a disservice if I didn’t point out the obvious. Last year, former President Joe Biden was in office, and at the time, crime hit a historically high record. This year, President Donald Trump is in office, and shootings hit a 30-year low. Coincidence? I’ll leave that up to you to decide.
However, the police department credited the milestone to "the brave work that the members of the NYPD do every day.”
As of Sunday, the NYPD has recorded 45 shooting victims so far in 2025— the same number of shooting victims in the city over the same time frame as last year. There have been 29 shootings in 2025, a decrease from 39 during the same period in 2024.
This comes after New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) boasted about a major public safety milestone for Manhattan.
The mayor reported that the NYPD has confiscated over 20,000 illegal firearms since his administration took office in 2022. This marks a 3,000-gun increase over the total seized during the three years from 2019 to 2021.
