Tuesday October 16, 2018
The first in 25 years
Weekend without a shooting in New York
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There hasn’t been a single shoot-out in New York this past weekend – and not a single murder. In a country full of guns, that’s reason enough to be “proud”, say the police. But only a week earlier there were “terrible” scenes.
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. “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, 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. There have been several shootings in Brooklyn and the Bronx.
The total number of murders in New York is also increasing again, although last year, at 292 murders, the lowest number since the 1950s was recorded. In the first half of 2018, however, there were already 147 murders, an increase of eight percent compared to the same period last year. After being considered the safest city in the United States for years, New York is now behind San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago in the “Safe City Index”.
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