Well, at least it's a trend in the right direction.
https://www.amny.com/police-fire/nyp...fore-pandemic/
While murders and shootings continued to decrease across New York City in September, statistics from the NYPD show that last month’s figures for both categories were still much higher than they were in September 2019, about six months before the COVID-19 pandemic struck.
The department reported a 22% drop in homicides, with 46 occurring in September 2021, down from the 59 tallied in the same month in 2020. Shooting incidents also fell 9.3%, from 150 recorded in September 2020 to 136 last month.
Though that represents continued progress as the NYPD continues to battle a pandemic surge in gun violence, the figures for September 2021 still represent a substantial increase over a two-year period.
In September 2019, the NYPD recorded just 29 murders, or about 58.6% of the total homicides that took place last month. Shootings were also far fewer in September 2019, with only 67 such incidents recorded — more than half the number of such incidents that happened in September 2021.
The gun violence epidemic had kicked into high gear in the pandemic-stricken summer of 2020, when the NYPD saw close to 500 shootings in a bullet-riddled July and August. Having eliminated its Anti-Crime Units — specialized teams of undercover officers targeting gun criminals in neighborhoods — the department shifted those members into other areas and took a different approach toward getting firearms off the streets.
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