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Violent Year in New York and Across U.S. as Pandemic Fuels Crime Spike A time without precedent saw huge increases in homicides and shootings in the city as some other types of crime plummeted. New York City has recorded 447 homicides this year, the most since 2011. Still, crime numbers have remained well below those in the 1980s and 1990s.Credit...John Taggart for The New York Times Dec. 29, 2020 The first disaster in a year of perpetual crises hit the New York Police Department in March, when...

Dec. 19, 2020 8:00 am ET New York City is on course this year to record the highest number of deaths of drivers and passengers since it launched a traffic safety initiative in 2014. The rise in deaths comes even as crashes and traffic plummeted during the coronavirus pandemic. City transportation officials say speeding and other reckless behavior on the city’s emptier roads, especially at night, caused the increase. Julia Kite-Laidlaw, the transportation department’s head of policy ...