Professor Fagan said that, in addition to illegally recovering guns from the streets, police had limited control over whether shootings and murders occurred.
However, Keechant Sewell, who is nearing the end of his first year as a New York police commissioner, has sought to highlight the drop in those categories as evidence of a plan to bring crime back to the low end. most in her department’s pre-pandemic history.
“We know we are not going to change the situation of this city even a penny,” said Commissioner Sewell. “We did not experience these declines. They are not random. We strategized, planned, implemented, and recalibrated as needed.”
Statistics can be influenced by police department decisions about how criminals are classified, what they investigate, and in the case of New York, its own definition of a serious crime that includes a number of crimes. property crime. But the numbers released Thursday provide a variety of measurements of New York City’s crime and crime state:
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All told, there were 189,777 arrests citywide in 2022, a 22% increase from 2021.
Among them, 47,572 are the most serious offences: murder, rape, robbery, felony assault, burglary, grand theft and grand theft of motor vehicles.
The number of arrests related to shootings and homicides, 1,411, increased by about 12% from the previous year.
Michael LiPetri, director of crime control strategy, said the city has seen the most gun arrests in 27 years. There were 4,627 last year.
