Nearly 700 Fewer NYers Shot So Far This Year Than 2021: New Crime Data

NEW YORK CITY — Nearly 700 fewer people were shot in New York City this year than in 2021, when fear of violent crime swept the city, newly released crime statistics show.

Violence across the city continued its months-long decline in November, according to the NYPD's monthly crime statistics published Tuesday.

Shootings dropped nearly 19 percent compared to November 2022, and 25 percent year-to-date from last year's numbers, the data shows.

The city has seen 668 fewer shooting victims than 2021, said Michael Lipetri, the NYPD's chief of crime control strategies.

"Right now, New York City is on pace for the fourth-lowest number of shooting incidents in the CompStat era," he said.

The NYPD adopted CompStat — a computerized method of measuring crime — in the mid-1990s.

The November data showed encouraging drops in overall crime, which fell 4.1 percent.

Five of seven major felony categories, except for felony assaults and grand larcenies of vehicles, fell last month, the data show.