NYPD Announces Citywide Crime Statistics for May 2022

June 3, 2022

For the month of May 2022, the number of overall shooting incidents again declined in New York City compared with May 2021, continuing the downward trend in gun violence in the second quarter of the calendar year. Citywide shooting incidents decreased by 31.4% (118 v. 172), marked by declines in every patrol borough except Staten Island, where the tally remained even at three in May 2022 compared with May 2021. The number of overall hate crimes also declined for the month, by 10%, (63 v. 73) compared to the same period last year.

Additionally, there were 414 gun arrests in May 2022, bringing the total number of citywide gun arrests in 2022 to 2,007 – a 4.4% increase compared with the 1,923 gun arrests through the first five months of 2021. In its continuing work to eradicate gun violence, the NYPD has seized approximately 3,080 firearms so far in 2022, at a time when its gun arrests are at a 28-year high.

Overall index crime in New York City increased by 27.8% in May 2022 compared with May 2021 (10,414 v. 8,149). Each of the seven major index crime categories saw increases, driven by a 42.1% increase in grand larceny (4,116 v. 2,897); a 28.3% rise in burglary (1,239 v. 966); and a 26.2% increase in robbery (1,506 v. 1,193).

“We have pointed every resource we have at reducing gun violence in this city. We have seen seven straight weeks of shootings going down – and that is not a coincidence,” said Police Commissioner Keechant L. Sewell. “We are using an intelligence-led approach and gun arrests are being made in numbers we haven’t seen in almost 30 years, but we understand that we have to be relentless because lives depend on it.”

The reduction in shootings in May 2022 is part of a growing trend that reflects the NYPD’s work earlier this year with the rollout of new Neighborhood Safety Teams, which have seized 105 firearms and effected 115 gun arrests since their inception in mid-March. It also coincides with the NYPD’s continuing work to develop and investigate intelligence-based, long-term cases focused on the very few New Yorkers willing to pick up a gun and use it.

Just days ago, investigators with the NYPD’s Gun Violence Suppression Division arrested 22 alleged members of a violent Bloods-affiliated crew in the Bronx – who used Drill Rap to amplify their alleged criminality. They are charged in a 65-count indictment with conspiracy to commit murder and other charges related to several shootings. The Gun Violence Suppression Division began in southern Brooklyn in December 2014, and has now expanded citywide. It is a sustained model for combatting gun crime and holding violent criminals accountable for their actions.

Also in May 2022, the NYPD’s Firearms Suppression Section – as well as the Ghost Gun Team of the department’s Criminal Intelligence Section – continued the important work of interdicting hundreds of illegal firearms flowing into New York City through the traditional “iron pipeline” and the increasingly exploited “plastic pipeline.”

These operations employ all the tools of the department’s precision-policing philosophy to keep New Yorkers safe, and they work to keep the focus of the criminal justice system where it belongs: on the victims.

Additional Statistics For May 2022

Rape Incident Reporting Statistics: May 2022

(Reports filed from May 1 – May 31 in years indicated)

Rape continues to be underreported. If you are a victim of sexual assault, please come forward. The 24-hour NYPD Special Victims Division hotline is: 212-267-RAPE (7273).

Hate Crimes Statistics Summary for May 2022

(Representing May 1^st – May 31^st for calendar years 2022 and 2021)

Note: Statistics above are subject to change, as active possible bias cases may be reclassified to non-bias cases and removed from counted data upon investigation.

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