NYC crime: NYPD reports big drops in street and transit felonies in April

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Crime continued to fall across the five boroughs during April, the NYPD reported Monday.

The overall 4.9% decrease in major felonies around the five boroughs — nearly 500 fewer major crimes from the April 2023 total — also included a substantial 23% reduction in transit crime, according to the NYPD’s statistics.

Shootings also continued to plummet citywide, the NYPD reported, with 15.5% fewer incidents and 65 fewer people wounded in shootings last month as compared to April 2023. NYPD members also continue to get guns off the streets at a fierce clip; April 2024 saw more than 581 firearms seized by the department, for a total of 2,189 seized guns during the first four months of the year.

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