New York City had its safest year ever for gun violence in 2025, which had the fewest shootings and shooting victims in the city’s recorded history, the NYPD announced Tuesday.
The city recorded 688 shooting incidents last year, 10% below the previous record in 2018 and a 24% decline from 2024, officials said. The number of people shot also reached a historic low: 856, or nearly 5% less than the 2018 record and 247 fewer people than in 2024.
The city had 35 shootings in December, the fewest ever recorded in a single month, according to the NYPD. Meanwhile, homicides decreased 20% between 2024 and 2025, to 305, and robberies dropped nearly 10%, with 1,600 fewer incidents.
Officials said the transit system also had significant improvements, as major crime on the subways fell 4% and t…
New York City had its safest year ever for gun violence in 2025, which had the fewest shootings and shooting victims in the city’s recorded history, the NYPD announced Tuesday.
The city recorded 688 shooting incidents last year, 10% below the previous record in 2018 and a 24% decline from 2024, officials said. The number of people shot also reached a historic low: 856, or nearly 5% less than the 2018 record and 247 fewer people than in 2024.
The city had 35 shootings in December, the fewest ever recorded in a single month, according to the NYPD. Meanwhile, homicides decreased 20% between 2024 and 2025, to 305, and robberies dropped nearly 10%, with 1,600 fewer incidents.
Officials said the transit system also had significant improvements, as major crime on the subways fell 4% and transit robberies reached record lows. The Mamdani administration called 2025 the “safest year on the subways since 2009,” excluding the pandemic years when ridership nosedived.
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch credited the drop to the department’s "deliberate, data-driven strategy" over the last year. Although national crime numbers are also down, Gothamist reported last week that New York City has had significantly fewer total shootings than American cities a fraction of its size.
“We see the headlines and we hear the pundits talk about crime being out of control in our city," Tisch said during a press conference Tuesday. "These numbers tell a very different story.”
Tisch credited the department’s "precision policing strategy,” which deployed thousands of officers to high-crime areas and nightly foot posts across precincts, public housing and the subway system. She also touted police efforts to remove thousands of guns off the streets.
Still, the end-of-year statistics highlighted some ongoing challenges with public safety.
Felony assaults ticked up slightly over 2024, driven largely by domestic violence and assaults on public employees, officials said.
And youth violence continued to rise as a share of overall violent crime, with both victims and perpetrators under 18 reaching their highest percentages since tracking began in 2018.
This is a developing story and may be updated.