The city saw a drop in shootings and overall crime in November, but hate crimes were still up year over year, NYPD data released Tuesday shows.
The city’s overall crime index ticked down by 4.1% last month compared to November 2022, with drops in murder, reported rape, robbery, burglary and grand larceny, the NYPD said.
Citywide, the NYPD recorded a 6.5% drop in murders year over year, from 31 to 29; a 4.3% drop in reported rapes, from 117 to 112; a 9.7% drop in robberies, from 1,531 to 1,383; a 17.8% drop in burglaries, from 1,273 to 1,047; and a 3.5% drop in grand larcenies, from 4,259 to 4,110.
Data shows there was an 18.8% drop in shooting incidents throughout the city year over year, with 65 shootings last month compared to 80 last November.
But while the number of reported bias incidents dropped by 6% year to date, from 603 last year to 568 this year, hate crimes were still up by 33% year over year in November, with 96 incidents recorded compared to 72 in November 2022.
The NYPD logged 62 anti-Jewish incidents, 11 incidents tied to sexual orientation, seven anti-Muslim incidents, six anti-Black incidents, five “anti-ethnic” incidents, four anti-Asian incidents and one incident tied to religion in November.
The number of reported hate crimes did decline between October — when the NYPD logged 101 incidents, marking a 124% year-over-year increase — and last month.
Grand larcenies auto, meanwhile, were up by 7.1%, with 1,218 car thefts recorded last month compared to 1,137 in November 2022. The city also saw a 0.9% uptick in felony assaults year over year in November, from 2,092 to 2,110, the data shows.
Transit crime dropped by 2.5% year to date, decreasing to 2,084 from 2,137. However, transit crime rose by 10.1% year over year, from 207 incidents in November 2022 to 288 last month.
The NYPD says this was “driven by felony assaults on members of law enforcement and by grand larceny, a category that includes the stealing of purses, wallets and other personal items belonging to subway riders that are taken without the use of threat or physical force.”
“Month after month, the NYPD continues to deliver on its public safety promise,” NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban said in a statement. “There is always more work to do in every neighborhood, of course, and the men and women dedicated to protecting New York City are relentless in their mission.”