NYPD boasts “unprecedented” reduction in index crime for November
The city’s “unprecedented” reduction in index crime continued through the month of November, according to the New York City Police Department.
The department claims that there were four fewer murders, 17 fewer shooting incidents, and 656 fewer index crimes in total for the month of November, 2017, compared with November, 2016. Specifically, there were reductions in robberies, felony assaults, burglaries and grand larcenies.
On the other hand, however, there was a 15.6 percent increase in rapes reported in November,2017, up 15 to 111 from 96 November, 2016.