NYC gun violence spikes as summer heat hits the five boroughs: ‘It’s that time of the year’
NY Post
It’s looking like a long, hot summer already.
Shootings spiked in the Big Apple last week by a whopping 50% compared to the same period last year – and the number of gunshot victims spiked by an even higher margin, NYPD stats show.
The data show that 30 people were struck in two dozen shootings across the five boroughs in the week ending on Sunday, a jump from the 18 gunshot victims in 16 incidents over the same span in 2023.
And that’s just part of a month-long pattern that has seen an uptick in gun violence.
“The summer hasn’t even officially started yet it’s already getting out of hand,” one Brooklyn cop told The Post. “Everyone has a gun and the shooters are getting younger. That’s a bad formula for fighting crime.”
Over the past month, the NYPD has recorded 117 victims in 98 shootings, up from 81 people shot in 74 incidents over the same month in 2023 – a 44% rise in victims and 32% bump in shootings.
