Mayor Adams touts drop in NYC murders, shootings in annual report: ‘Our efforts are working’

Murder and shootings plummeted in the Big Apple during the past fiscal year, according to the city’s annual management report, which was released Monday by Mayor Eric Adams.

While soaring crime persists in some areas, such as tourist-packed Midtown Manhattan, the city generally fared better overall July 1, 2023, to June 30, 2024, when compared to the same period last year, the report found.

Murder and manslaughter plummeted 15%, dropping from 424 to 359 of the crimes.

Shootings fell 18%, from 1,140 to 932, and the report cites a big drop in gang-related violence.

Gun arrests were down 10%, from 6,837 to 6,129.

Burglaries decreased 13%, from 15,054 to 13,142, over the span, too.

Forcible rapes dipped 2%, from 1,090 to 1,070, while  grand larcency and majority felony crime in the transit system fell 3%, according to the report.

Still, overall major felony crime was barely down, by 1%, and as The Post reported Sunday, crime has surged in the city’s tourist mecca, including Times Square, this year.

“Every day, we work to make this a safer, more affordable city,”  Adams said in a statement.

“Since the start of this administration, we’ve taken more than 18,000 illegal guns off the streets and focused on strategic, data-driven policing strategies to make New Yorkers safer. And these numbers show that our efforts are working, with a decline in overall crime, both above and below ground, and the lowest gang-related incidents we have seen since 2014,” said Hizzoner, a former NYPD captain and transit cop.

He thanked the NYPD for the progress.

But in Midtown, dismal NYPD crime stats still show a major battle for law enforcement.

As of Sept. 8 compared to the same year-to-date period in 2023, robberies soared more than 90%, and felony assaults jumped nearly 73% in the Manhattan North Precinct, which covers areas such as Radio City Music Hall, Rockefeller Plaza, the Theater District and St. Patrick’s Cathedral.

Murders in the city’s subway system also have surged 60% so far this year, while overall crime on the rails has dipped.

Eight people were killed in subway cars or in stations as of Sept. 8, up from just five during the same period last year, according to NYPD data. The spike in homicides underground is approaching the 25-year high set in 2022, with 10 murders. 

Adams is touting favorable crime stats while the NYPD is engulfed in a federal influence peddling corruption probe that led to the resignation last week of Police Department Commissioner Edward Caban. No one, including Caban, has been charged with wrongdoing. Tom Donlon was appointed interim commissioner.