NYPD ends 2020 with 97% jump in shootings violence not seen in 16 years Rocco Parascandola and Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News © Gardiner Anderson/New York Daily News/TNS Medics remove a victim following a triple shooting on East 171st Street and College Avenue in the Bronx, New York City, on Sunday, July 5, 2020.
NEW YORK New York City endured a 2020 crime surge straight out of hell: a 97% jump in shootings and a nearly 45% surge in murders, including 15 weeks straight of gunfire as COVID-19 ravaged the city.
The NYPD released the sobering preliminary year-end stats Friday, eager to turn the page on a tally that recorded more shootings from mid-May through mid-September than in all of 2019, a soul-crushing surge that never let up with 1,868 people hit by bullets.
New York City ends 2020 with 97 percent jump in shootings
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