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A special veterans exhibit will be at an art gallery in Penarth next month to concede with Remembrance Day.

The NYPD saw a sharp drop in murders and shootings over the summer months compared to last year, thanks in part to a new strategy where cops identified 69 violence-prone “zones” and flooded them with cops. “We’re not talking about hundreds, we’re talking about thousands of extra officers on foot in those 69 zones between the hours of 5:30 p.m. and 4 a.m.,” Chief Michael Lipetri of the NYPD ...

The figures, revealed at the MTA’s monthly board meeting Monday, show decreases in all five of the seven major crime categories – except from murders, which are even, and burglaries, which increased by six – in the Big Apple’s subway system between January and August.

“We will continue to drive overall crime even lower. This is happening at a time when historically crime often spikes," said NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban.

NEW YORK — Violent crime in the city dropped this past summer at a time when cops usually brace for a jump in mayhem, police said Wednesday. Cops saw a 28% drop in shootings and a 19% drop in murders in July and August when compared with the same two months last year, according to NYPD statistics. The not-so-cruel summer comes as crime continues to drop in the city, NYPD Police Commissioner ...