Law 18:06 16/10/2018 World

NYC goes entire weekend without a shooting for first time in decades

New York may be the city that never sleeps — but for once, it’s not the sound of people getting shot that’s keeping Big Apple residents awake.

Not a single person was reported shot for all of Friday, Saturday and Sunday — marking the first city weekend free of shootings in at least a quarter-century, New York Post reports, citing local officials.

“I really don’t remember a weekend that no one was shot in the entire city,” NYPD Chief of Department Terence Monahan — on the job since 1982 — told The Post. “It’s a different city.”

This past weekend was the only Friday-Saturday-Sunday run without someone reported shot going back to at least 1993 — since before even the department’s 1995 adoption of its CompStat record-keeping system, according to the NYPD.

Mayor de Blasio took a victory lap over the statistic, crowing to an NYPD graduating class Monday morning, “I have to tell you, this is a winning team for sure. And to give you some evidence, about as recent as it can get, this last weekend — Friday, Saturday and Sunday — there was not a single shooting in all of New York City. Isn’t that amazing?”

The last shooting prior to the recent streak occurred Thursday morning in Brooklyn, when a 25-year-old man was blasted in the stomach near East 98th Street and Avenue J at around 11:30 a.m., according to officials.

Unfortunately, the city’s safety streak was snapped by Monday afternoon, when a man was shot at around 1:15 p.m. on Aqueduct Avenue in The Bronx, authorities said.

The 27-year-old victim caught a bullet in the ankle when a gunman opened fire near West 192nd Street in Fordham Manor, according to police.

The victim was rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital, where he’s expected to survive, even though the streak — which reached nearly 98 hours — did not.



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