Police Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch today announced that from January 2025 through May 2025, New York City experienced the lowest number of shootings and murders in recorded history and set the record for the lowest number of shootings and murders in May. New York City also experienced the safest Memorial Day on record, with the lowest number of shootings ever across the entire weekend and the first Memorial Day Sunday with zero shootings. These historic numbers helped drive the eighth straight month of declines in major crime categories with a 4.9% drop in May 2025 compared to the same time last year.
From January 2025 to May 2025, New York City recorded 264 shootings and 112 murders, compared to the previous record low of 267 shootings in 2018 and 113 murders in 2014 and 2017. In May 2025 alone, New York City recorded 54 shootings and 18 murders. The previous record low was set in 2019, when New York City recorded 61 shootings and 19 murders.
“Today, the mayor announced an unprecedented achievement: the lowest number of shootings and homicides in recorded history over the first five months of the year,” said NYPD Commissioner Tisch. “Results like this never happen by accident, and certainly not at a time when the state’s criminal justice laws have made a revolving door out of our criminal justice system. Here’s how your mayor and your NYPD cops delivered the safest January–May for gun violence in New York City’s history: three-plus years of relentlessly going after guns on our streets and a data-driven policing strategy that puts more cops in the right places at the right times to do what they do better than anyone else in the world. We will not let up. Our summer violence reduction plan is bold and aggressive and designed to continue driving the same historic safety gains.”
This is the result of the NYPD’s commitment to seizing illegal guns and the Summer Violence Reduction Plan. So far in 2025, the NYPD has removed more than 2,265 illegal guns off the streets and removed a total of 22,027 since the start of the Adams administration in January 2022.
The NYPD’s Summer Violence Reduction Plan is a citywide effort to reduce violence, strengthen enforcement, and ensure every New Yorker feels safe in the months ahead. The plan includes 70 summer deployment zones, covering 57 precincts, police service areas, and transit districts with more than 1,500 uniformed officers deployed to foot posts in precincts, public housing, and the subway system — all focused on high-priority crimes and shootings.
