#NYC shootings in 2020 have nearly doubled 2019’s pace

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NYPD officers outside of 1865 University Avenue after a shooting.
Seth Gottfried

The Big Apple is set to hit another grim milestone — city shootings so far this year are nearly double what they were in 2019 for the same period.

There have been 821 shootings and 1,000 victims as of Saturday, compared to 466 incidents and 551 victims for the same time frame in 2019, according to statistics released by the NYPD on Sunday.

In the past week alone, there have been more than twice as many shootings over the same time span last year, with 38 in the week ending early Sunday compared to just 16 over the same week in 2019, police said.

The number of murders this year did dip from last year, with four vs. eight for the week last year.

Police reported a dozen shootings late Saturday into early Sunday with three people killed — including a man who inadvertently flicked a cigarette at a group of men in the Bronx and was shot dead in front of his wife.

The new stats come just one week after police reported that the city had already surpassed the total number of shootings for all of last year, hitting the 777 three mark Aug. 1, topping the 2019 total of 776 for the entire year.