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Nearly a third of 2022 shootings occurred on 3% of NYC streets
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Bahar Ostadan
Published Oct 4, 2023
Modified Oct 4, 2023
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Nearly a third of shootings last year occurred on just 3% of the city’s streets, NYPD officials announced on Wednesday.
Police zeroed in on geographic zones making up nine square miles of the city, including stretches of Main Street in Flushing, Queens; Fordham Road in the Bronx; and Church Avenue in Brooklyn, NYPD Chief of Crime Control Strategies Michael LiPetri told reporters. He did not provide the exact geographic parameters where the most shootings occurred.
Those high-crime zones accounted for 29% of shootings in 2022, he said. Most of those shootings took place between 5:30 p.m. and 4 a.m., LiPetri said.
The NYPD has made 60% more arrests in those neighborhoods so far this year, he said.
Wednesday’s announcement came as part of a quarterly review of NYPD crime statistics presented to the press.
NYPD Chief of Transit Michael Kemper said there have been 86 fewer felonies, including 57 fewer robberies in the subway system so far this year compared to the same period in 2022.
The department is deploying between 1,000 and 1,200 additional officers into the subway system each day — on top of the usual transit police officers, Kemper said.
Because of a misstatement made by a police official, a previous version of this story misstated the reduction in felonies in the city this year. According to police data, there have been 86 fewer felonies so far this year compared to the same period in 2022, including 57 fewer robberies.
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