New York City’s summer crime wave? More like a summer crime ripple. The NYPD just dropped stats showing that July 2025 wasn’t just safer than last summer—it was one of the safest Julys since the city started keeping records.

Across the five boroughs, shootings hit all-time lows for the month, with just 75 incidents and 92 victims, per a recently released report . That’s down from the previous record in July 2017, when 79 incidents and 102 victims were recorded. And it wasn’t just July: The first seven months of 2025 also saw the lowest number of shootings (412) and shooting victims (489) since the NYPD began tracking the category in the 1990s.

Even the notoriously tricky Fourth of July weekend , a time police say can spike gun violence, saw the lowest shooting totals ever recorded fo

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