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NYPD reports 15% decline in crime in February, the lowest shooting rates have been in 30 years

From Rocco Parascandola
New York Daily News

New York-in February decreased by 15%of the serious crime of subway, one month in the new approach of the NYPD against violations of the transit rules, since the shootings in the city reached a 30-year low.

The renewed phase in the enforcement of violations of small calm, such as playing over several seats or loud music, was criticized as a more broken window police, the bourgeois freedom and homeless people say that they concentrate unfairly on minorities.

However, the police said that the focus on rules of the criminals.

The procedure of smaller violations has so far been tested in two NYPD transit districts, one in Queens in which the pilot program began on January 18, and one in Brooklyn, where it started a month later on February 17th.

In these two districts, the police have so far come across 984 drivers who have broken one or the other transit nozzle. Most of these perpetrators, 671, were issued, but another 313 were arrested, including 180, who had outstanding arrest warrants, the police said.

The suspect, a well -known criminal with outstanding arrest warrants, fired at the Maricopa police before the officials brought fire back, and a detective met him with a cruiser

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The Hanceville police are on vacation while the city meets to determine whether it should be asked for an investigation

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The DOJ said that the bidet management “branded the aptitude tests … as discriminatory to drive a dei agenda” without indications of deliberate discrimination

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The study is looking for an insight into the fear of retaliation measures that influence the decisions of the officials to report internal problems

The enforcement of the rules is the party of a larger U -Bahn plan, which includes hundreds or more police officers who are assigned to the patrols and are more visible on trains, including two in the entire night.

The police said the decline in the U -Bahn crime was part of a major decline in the city's serious crimes in the city in February. 1,328 fewer crimes, including nine murders less and 315 fewer robberies than in the same month of the previous year. However, rapes rose again at 140 in February compared to 115 in February.

“In the first two months of the 2025, New York City has experienced the slightest number of shooting events in the past 30 years,” said NYPD commissioner Jessica Tisch.

Tisch said that “zone -based police work” concentrated even more on hotspots, such as:

“We will continue to make our city safer by listening to our communities, analyzing real -time data and using our resources where they are needed the most,” said Tisch.

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