In addition to removing illegal firearms from the streets, said Prof. Fagan, the police have limited control over shootings and killings.
However, Keechant Sewell, who is finishing up his first year as New York City police commissioner, sought to highlight declines in those categories as evidence of his department’s plans to return crime to all-time pre-pandemic lows.
“We knew we weren’t going to turn this city upside down in a flash,” Commissioner Sewell said. “We didn’t stumble on these dips. It was no accident. We strategized, planned, deployed and scaled as needed. »
Statistics can be influenced by police departments’ decisions about how to classify crime, what they investigate, and in New York’s case, their own definition of a serious crime which includes some property crimes. But the numbers released Thursday provided a number of metrics about the state of crime and crime in New York:
Arrests
In total, there were 189,777 arrests citywide in 2022, an increase of 22% from 2021.
Of these, 47,572 were for the most serious crimes: murder, rape, robbery, felony assault, burglary, robbery and motor vehicle theft.
The number of arrests related to shootings and homicides, 1,411, increased approximately 12% from a year earlier.
The city has had the most gun arrests in 27 years, said Michael LiPetri, chief of crime strategies. Last year there were 4,627.
