Twenty-five years that the city had not known this. New York Police (NYPD) welcomed Monday, October 15, the first shoot-free weekend since 1993.
“We spent Friday, Saturday, Sunday without any shootings or homicides. It’s the first time in decades and it’s something that not only New York police but all New Yorkers can be proud of. “
This parenthesis – welcomed by Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio – began at midday on Thursday, after a man driving a black car shot another at 11:37 a.m. local time in the Canarsie neighborhood in Brooklyn before fleeing. It ended at 1:15 p.m. on Monday, when a 27-year-old man was shot in the foot in the Bronx.
Brooklyn et Bronx
The number of shootings is down in the financial capital of the United States, 8.5 million inhabitants: as of October 7, around 600 people had been caught in exchanges of fire since the beginning of the year, a decrease by 1.1% compared to the same period of 2017.
But this slight decrease does not prevent peaks: the weekend of October 6 and 7 had been « terrible », according to the NYPD, with several shootings in Brooklyn and the Bronx.
The number of murders, after reaching a low in 2017 with 292 deaths – a record low since the 1950s – has started to rise again. In the first half of the year, the city recorded 147 murders, an 8% increase from the same period of 2017, mostly concentrated in a few neighborhoods in Brooklyn and the Bronx.
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