City leaders announced encouraging news, marking a milestone in their efforts to drive down crime across the city.

Shooting victims have fallen to the lowest number in recorded city history in the first half of 2025, according to NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch.

"Records like this don't happen by chance—they happen because of strategy, precision, and the relentless work of your NYPD officers," said Tisch.

In May, the NYPD launched its summer deployment plan, where officers flooded high crime neighborhoods during evening and overnight hours on foot patrol. The commissioner says early results of the deployment have been successful, specifically in the Bronx's 44th Precinct, where shooting and shooting victims dropped by more than 70%. Overall crime is down by 11% in the same precinct.

In the first six months of 2025, there has been 397 reported shooting victims, down from 24% from the same time last year and 337 shooting incidents, a 23% decline from the previous year.

Shooting incidents were also down citywide by 30% in June.

Gang takedowns have also played a major role in getting guns and shooters off the streets, according to city leaders. This year, there have been 42 gang takedowns that led to the arrest of 322 gang members and associates. During those takedowns, officers recovered 236 illegal guns.

"What we are doing here is collaborating with our district attorneys to do these gang take downs, we saw the numbers, those are the shooters, those are the trigger pullers, we are focusing on taking them down," said NYC Mayor Eric Adams.

The department has also seen success in their quality-of-life patrols that respond to 911 calls and 311 complaints. The department plans to roll out these patrols in all precinct's city wide by Labor Day.