By Rocco Parascandola and Thomas Tracy
The city ended 2016 with just under 1,000 shooting incidents — a
historic low mark that Police Commissioner James O’Neill predicted last
month.
By the time the ball dropped in Times Square on Saturday night, the
NYPD had investigated 998 shootings, according to preliminary
statistics.
The year ended with 140 fewer shooting incidents than in 2015, which
saw 1,138 incidents — or a drop of about 12%. Police investigated 1,172
incidents in 2014, officials said.
Cops estimate that bullets struck 1,181 people in 2016, a tally that
includes incidents where more than one person was hit. The 2016 number
represents a roughly 12% drop from the 1,345 people shot a year earlier,
officials said.
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Source: The New York Daily News (via The Empire Report)
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