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Crime is down in New York City. Let's compare this last September. Just last month, September 2021 to September 2020.  Murder down 23.7 percent. Burglary down 15.8 percent. Shootings down 8.7 percent. Shooting victims down 4.4 percent. Overall index crime down year to date compared to last year, lowest point in three decades. Let's look at some of these examples. The robbery rate year-to-date, lowest point in the last three decades. Felony crime rate year-to-date, lowest point in the last three decades. Misdemeanor crime, lowest point in the last three decades. Major property felony crime, lowest point in the last three decades. Look we got a lot more to do, but what's clear is not just what's been done since the pandemic began, but the years and years before – the 25 years-plus since CompStat began, but also the efforts that we undertook in our first six years with neighborhood policing.

Yesterday, a major takedown of a gun trafficking ring – NYPD, DA’s, federal officials, all working together. Very, very powerful, but look at the overall reality with the gun arrests up 20 percent year-to-date. 20 percent more-gun arrests, extraordinary activity, extraordinary success by the men and women of the NYPD.  It is not easy. As the Commissioner will attest, a gun arrest is a very difficult thing to do. When you look at the overall crime rate, what we did see a spike in, particularly in the month of September, is felony assaults. And the felony assault level was up 19 percent, but a lot of positives, a lot of good work being done.

Commissioner Shea: When you look at the case that came down yesterday, we highlighted Mr. Mayor, working with Cy Vance and the Manhattan DA's office, undercover officers, going into the streets of New York City, purchasing guns to make sure that guns don't wind up in the hands of criminals that are hurting New Yorkers. So, a lot of good work on that. And I would just like to highlight, again, some of the work that we're doing with the youth across the city – schools have back in and that's some great news. Schools are back in session. It's important that the NYPD continues as we head into the last quarter of 2021 to finish this year, very strong. So, we're continuing our Blue Chips program. We're continuing our Saturday Night Lights program. We have plans to open three more courts.