NYPD touts record-low shootings for most of 2025 ‘historic gains’

As 2025 draws to a close, New York City is on track for record-low shootings and homicides this year, the NYPD boasted Tuesday while releasing the latest crime data for November and the first 11 months of 2025.

So far in 2025, the Big Apple has seen the fewest shooting incidents and shooting victims in recorded history, according to the NYPD. From January through November, the city saw 652 shooting incidents and 812 shooting victims, compared to the previous all-time lows of 696 and 828, respectively, set in 2018.

Meanwhile, in November 2025, police reported that the month itself recorded the lowest number of murders since officials began keeping statistics. Police say murders fell by 46.6% in November, with 16 murders taking place throughout the month.

Not a single homicide was reported in Queens and Staten Island.

Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch.Photo by Dean Moses

“For the first 11 months of the year, New York City had the lowest number of shooting incidents and victims in recorded history, and the safest November on our subways outside the pandemic period,” Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said. “These historic gains are the result of our precision policing strategy and officers executing that strategy with the discipline and dedication that defines this noble work. Our plan is working, the progress is real, and I’m grateful to Mayor Adams for providing the tools that make these public-safety gains possible.”

Subway crime also trended downward throughout the month. Transit crime fell by 24.8% (167 vs. 222) in November, making it the safest November in recorded history, excluding the pandemic years, police said. Shootings also dropped in November by 19.1% (55 vs. 68), and shooting victims were down 13% (67 vs. 77). Meanwhile, rape slightly decreased by 4.8% in November compared to the same period in 2024 (159 vs. 167).

The November crime report also showed that felony assault is slightly on the rise by 1.5% (2,324 vs. 2,290) during the month. Police stated that since the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly half of these attacks, 42.4% are related to domestic violence.In September, Commissioner Tisch announced the creation of a new Domestic Violence Unit, aiming to curb such incidents.

Hate crime investigations, however, sharply rose in November by a whopping 50% (54 vs. 36). Crimes against the Jewish community led the way with 20 victims, while gender based discrimination followed with 18 incidents.

Even so, Mayor Eric Adams touted the progress made toward making the city safer as he entered his final month in office before giving way to his successor, Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.

“We’re now well into our eighth straight quarter of major crimes continuing to fall across the five boroughs, thanks to both the upstream and downstream solutions the Adams administration has invested in since day one,” Mayor Eric Adams said. “The strategies we put in place have made our city safer — with the lowest number of shooting incidents and shooting victims for the first 11 months of 2025, subway crime hitting a record low over the last five months, and major crimes dropping another 5.6% in November alone.”