NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — New York City saw the lowest number of shootings and homicides in recorded history during the first five months of 2025, according to Mayor Eric Adams and the NYPD, which boasted the administration’s efforts to remove illegal guns from the streets.
There were 264 shootings in NYC from January through May this year, beating out the previous record-low of 267 over the same period in 2018, City Hall said. During this time there were 112 homicides, one less than the previous lows of 113 in 2014 and 2017.
“This is not just a statistical win—these numbers represent thousands of New Yorkers who are alive today and safer today, families who can sleep more soundly at night, and communities that are thriving because they know their city isn’t just coming back from the throes of the pandemic—it is back,” Adams said.
Adams attributed the decline directly to “precision policing, strategic deployment of resources, and the tireless dedication of the brave men and women of the NYPD,” noting that since he became mayor in 2021, officers have removed a total of over 22,000 illegal firearms from the streets, including ghost guns.
“Here’s how your mayor and your NYPD cops delivered the safest January-May for gun violence in New York City: three-plus years of relentlessly going after guns on our streets and a data-driven policing strategy that puts more cops in the right places at the right times to do what they do better than anyone else in the world,” NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said. “We will not let up.”
Tisch pointed to the department’s summer violence reduction plan—which includes the deployment of 1,500 officers to foot posts in 70 zones—as the NYPD’s next step in keeping crime down, while the mayor touted the department’s new Quality of Live Division and the Community Link program, which sends multi-agency resources to neighborhoods in need.
“Equally as important, these results reflect our focus on upstream solutions and our unprecedented investments in our young New Yorkers, because we know that preventing crime starts with providing opportunity to the next generation,” Adams said. “But let’s be clear: we are not even close to done. It’s not enough for New Yorkers to be safer—they must feel safer, too.”