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Mar 28, 2022 · Yet in 2021 shooting incidents dropped nearly 18%, a sizable change that nevertheless left the area among the city’s worst-hit for gun violence last year. Next door, the 75th precinct, covering ...
Dec 21, 2023 · Credit: Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY. NYPD officers shot and killed 13 people in 2022, the highest number of people killed by New York City cops since 2012, according to newly published data. Last year’s fatal shootings by police of nine Black men and four Latino men, along with injuries from shootings to 15 other people, came amid a nearly 30% ...
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Precinct-level data illustrate how, even amidst a citywide spike in nearly every major crime category, even neighborhoods that saw similarly brutal spikes in gun violence are experiencing the tail effects of the pandemic-era crime wave differently. Brooklyn saw a sharp rise in shootings in 2020, only to see a drop of just over 20% in 2021. To date ...
Observers have struggled to decipher why shooting trends differ between the boroughs. In general, the Bronx has long lagged behind other boroughs in key markers of health, wellbeing and socioeconomic standing, and was hit harder by the pandemic, said David Caba, the program director for Good Shepherd Services’ Bronx Rises Against Gun Violence progr...
Yet activists say they want to see law enforcement play a diminished role in increasing safety in vulnerable neighborhoods. While these areas are seeing different short-term trends in violence, they are dealing with the same root causes, said Keli Young, the civil rights campaign coordinator for VOCAL-NY. Across much of the Bronx and north Brooklyn...
Apr 13, 2022 · Including Tuesday’s shooting, there have been 131 mass shootings in America this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive, a non-profit that tracks gun death and injury. Those shootings left ...
Apr 13, 2022 · The department has identified a suspect named Frank R. James, 62, through a cache of weapons at the scene, including guns, ammunition, a hatchet and gasoline — and keys to a U-Haul van.
May 12, 2022 · Video shows moments before deadly police confrontation in the Bronx 00:27. CBS2 has received new video that shows the deadly confrontation between a police officer and a suspect in the Bronx.
Apr 14, 2023 · Police say they had no choice but to shoot in the three incidents, and officials say the confrontations in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx share a key detail. Police said in press...
