No shooting, no murder – for a whole weekend: that’s worth news in New York. But overall it has hardly become more peaceful in the city.
For the first time in 25 years, New York had a weekend without a shootout. “There were neither shootings nor murders on Friday, Saturday and Sunday,” said the chief of police of the US metropolis, James O’Neill, on Monday. “This is the first time in decades, and it’s not just the New York police that can be proud of, all New Yorkers can be proud of.” According to the police, the last weekend in the metropolis was 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.
Overall, there are more murders than last year
The number of murders is also increasing again in New York, 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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