For the first time in 25 years, New York has had a weekend without a shootout. “There were no shootings or murders on Friday, Saturday and Sunday,” said the chief of police of the US metropolis, James O’Neill, yesterday. “This is the first time in decades, and not only the New York police can be proud of it, all New Yorkers can be proud of it.”
According to the police, there was the last weekend in the metropolis in 1993 without a shooting. However, no trend can be read from the good news from the weekend. The weekend of October 6th and 7th was “terrible”, the authorities said, and there had been several shootings in Brooklyn and the Bronx.
The number of murders in New York is also on the rise again, after 292 murders last year, the lowest number since the 1950s. There were 147 murders in the first half of 2018, an eight percent increase compared to the same period last year.
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