NEW YORK - City police officers are using their guns less frequently but turning to other types of force more often, according to new numbers from the New York City Police Department.

The data show NYPD officers only fired their guns 26 times from January through September of this year.

That puts them on a pace to break last year's record low of 52 police shootings.

But officers used some type of force nearly 6-thousand times during the same period, which puts them on a pace for 2018 that would be 9 percent higher than last year.

Other uses of force include tasers, batons, and pepper spray.

The use of tasers by city officers is up 40 percent this year over 2017.