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NYC Reaches 12 Murder-Free Days
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Rebecca Fishbein
Published Feb 14, 2015
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The City has officially survived 12 record-breaking murder-free days, now that even hardened criminals are spending the weekend wrapped in Snuggies. Frostbite sure makes it hard to pull a trigger! Not that cops are getting too comfortable—"We don't want to jinx it," Police Commissioner Bratton cautioned yesterday.
Sadly, the streak does hang in the balance. A 28-year-old man is currently clinging to his life after being shot in the head in Woodhaven Friday morning. He was transported to a local hospital, where he was listed in critical condition as of this morning; his assailant is still at large, according to police.
Still, 12 days is a record for the City, at least since cops started keeping track using computers in the 1990s, and Bratton's pretty happy about it. "You figure, in 1990, when I first came ere, they were doing six murders a day," he told reporters yesterday. "And to have in a city of eight-and-a-half million people, just think of it, to have 11, 12 days without a murder; we had a couple days in there, I think, where we didn't have any shootings or stabbings, either. So, it's just a reflection of just how safe the city has become."
And here we thought Mayor de Blasio would usher in the Bad Old Days; instead he's just brought us Boston's weather.
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