The city saw a drop in shootings and an increase in transit crime and car thefts in June, according to NYPD data released Thursday.
Data shows there was a 16.8% drop in shooting incidents throughout the city, with 104 shootings last month compared to 125 last June.
The city’s overall crime index also decreased by 3.9% year-over-year last month, with a 3.1% drop in homicides, from 32 to 31; a 24.1% drop in reported rapes, from 141 to 107; a 9.2% drop in robberies, from 1,563 to 1,419; a 24.8% drop in burglaries, from 1,311 to 986; and a 4.8% drop in grand larcenies, from 4,523 to 4,304.
Grand larcenies auto, however, were up by 22.8%, with 1,391 car thefts recorded last month compared to 1,133 in June 2022. The city also saw an 0.9% uptick in felony assaults year-over-year in June, from 2,532 to 2,555, the data shows.
The increase in car thefts was “driven by the theft of motorcycles and the well-documented exploitation of vulnerabilities in the ignition system of certain Kia and Hyundai models,” the NYPD said.
Transit crime went up by 18.2% last month compared to June 2022, increasing to 195 from 165. That increase was “driven by non-confrontational property thefts of opportunity,” the department said.
Major crime in transit decreased by 4.4% — from 1,143 incidents to 1,093 incidents — in the first six months of the year compared to the same period last year, which the NYPD said reflects the department’s “ongoing work to improve the subway system’s overall public-safety landscape.”
The five boroughs throughout the first six months of 2023 also saw a 24.7% decline in shootings, with 482 shooting incidents logged compared to 636 in the first six months of 2022.
Five of the seven index crime categories, meanwhile, saw declines in the first six months of 2023. Murders were down by 7.9%, from 216 to 199; reported rapes were down by 9.9%, from 809 to 729; robberies were down by 4.8%, from 8,180 to 7,789; burglaries dropped by 9.9%, from 7,635 to 6,877; and grand larcenies declined by 1.3%, from 24,664 to 24,334.
In June, the NYPD made a total of 4,589 arrests in the seven major crime categories — a 9.3% increase in arrests compared to the same month last year.
The NYPD made 25,995 arrests in the seven categories in the first six months of 2023, marking “the most for any half-year period” since 2000, the department said.
In the transit system, the NYPD recorded a 27% increase in arrests for guns in the first six months of the year — from 15 last year to 19 this year, the data shows. Arrests for “edged weapons” increased by 67%, from 402 in the first half of 2022 to 673 in the first half of 2023.
“As we look back on the first half of this year, we can see steady progress in the NYPD’s fight against violence and disorder — a level of commitment that will continue with renewed focus as we head into the summer months,” Acting NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban said in a statement.
“Our good work continues and our promise to the people we serve is clear: We will never waver in our public safety mission to keep every New Yorker, in every New York City neighborhood, safe and free from fear,” Caban added.