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New York, Jan 2 : There was a 97 per cent jump in the number of shootings and a nearly 45 per cent surge in murders, including 15 consecutive weeks of gunfire, as Covid-19 ravaged New York City in 2020, according to the latest statistics from the New York Police Department (NYPD).
Official sources said on Friday that the NYPD responded to 1,531 shooting incidents across the city’s five boroughs in 2020, 754 more than the all of 2019, reports Xinhua news agency.
The NYPD Detective Bureau investigated 462 killings around the city in 2020, 143 more than the year before.
There had not been such alarming violence since 2006, when 1,565 shootings were reported, Police Commissioner Dermot Shea was quoted by the New York Daily News as saying.
At the other end of the grim tally, there were decreases in rapes, robberies and assaults, although the statistics showed jumps in burglaries and car thefts, the sources said.
Overall crime went down, if only slightly, by 0.9 per cent.

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