NEW YORK, Jan. 1 (Xinhua) -- There was a 97 percent jump in the number of shootings and a nearly 45 percent surge in murders, including 15 weeks straight of gunfire, as COVID-19 ravaged New York City in 2020, according to the latest statistics from the New York Police Department (NYPD).
The NYPD responded to 1,531 shooting incidents across the city's five boroughs in 2020, 754 more than the all of 2019, according to official sources. The NYPD Detective Bureau investigated 462 killings around the city in 2020, 143 more than the year before.
