The Day - NYPD ends 2020 with 97% jump in shootings — violence not seen since 2006 - News from southeastern Connecticut
Published January 02. 2021 10:57PM | Updated January 03. 2021 1:29AM Rocco Parascandola and Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News 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 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. When the ball fell in Times Square, the NYPD ...