Overall crime in the city was down for the sixth straight month, according to the latest data released by the NYPD.

“We have had a full-frontal assault on disorder and when you have six straight months of a decrease in crime, it says that the initiatives we are putting in place, they are working,” Mayor Eric Adams said Wednesday. “New York City is the safest big city in America.”

When comparing last month to June 2023, crimes were down in five of the seven major offenses: murder, robbery, burglary, grand larceny and grand larceny auto.

Murders dropped 21.1%, from 38 to 30. There were 21 fewer robberies, 91 fewer burglaries, 432 fewer instances of grand larceny and 131 fewer for grand larceny auto, the NYPD reports.

Rape was one of the two offenses that saw an uptick. There were 175 rapes reported in June 2024, compared with 110 in June 2023. The NYPD says 39 of the 175 rapes reported last month occurred in prior years, and 90% of cases are incidents in which the suspect and victim had known each other.

“We see an increase in acquaintance rapes and a small increase in stranger rapes,” Michael LePetri, chief of Crime Control Strategies, said. “We’ve also seen over the last quarter we do have more victims coming forward in the past with crimes that happened months ago, and we encourage them.” 

There was also a 6.7% increase in the number of felony assaults, from 2,632 in June 2023 to 2,808 last month. Police brass said the assaults have mostly been on older adults, strangers and domestic violence victims. Additionally, there was a 68% jump in the reported number of hate crimes. There were 47 reported hate crimes in June 2023 compared to 79 last month — 45 of those were committed against Jewish people. Seventeen were motivated because of a person’s sexual orientation.

The NYPD says major crimes in the transit system have decreased across multiple metrics. When comparing the first six months of this year to the same period in 2023, crimes were down 6.9%. In the past three months of this year, there were 80 fewer incidents of major crime compared to the first three months. There were 31 fewer incidents last month than in June 2023. The NYPD says this monthly drop marks a 14-year low when not accounting for pandemic-era data.

Crime on New York City public housing properties was also down across the same three metrics, according to the NYPD. It decreased by 2.9% when comparing the first half of 2024 to the first half of 2023. There were 75 fewer incidents in the past three months of the year compared to the first three months, and 42 fewer incidents last month than in June 2023.

The NYPD reports 41 fewer shooting incidents in the first six months of this year compared to the first six months of last year — 482 in 2023 vs. 441 in 2024. So far, officials say this has resulted in 37 fewer people killed. Arrests for gun possession were up 7.6% last month compared to June 2023, while arrests for all major index crimes were up 9.6% at 440 more arrests made in total.

Officials also provided an update on the implementation of the How Many Stops Act, a police accountability law that requires officers to record the race, age and gender of the civilians they approach during investigative encounters. The NYPD has argued the law burdens officers with administrative work.

“Officers on a daily basis are filing out these forms. They take time. And that time has to go somewhere. It’s either affecting response times or overtime or both. But in terms of that balance and magnitude it’s too soon,” Michael Gerber, deputy commissioner for Legal Matter at the NYPD, said.

The How Many Stops Act has been in effect for three days.