#NYPD data shows shootings spiked again last week as gun arrests dip

The Big Apple’s gun-violence epidemic continued unabated last week, with police reporting 49 shootings and 60 victims over the seven-day period ending Sunday– nearly four times the number over the same one-week period last year, NYPD data shows.

There were just 13 shootings over the same week last year.

Despite the uptick in gunplay, police said the six murders last week were nearly half of the 10 over the same time span in 2019, the stats show.

But the numbers also show that murder and gun busts have plummeted in the past 28 days, since the NYPD’s anti-crime unit was disbanded June 15 amid Black Lives Matter protests calling for defunding of the police department.

Cops made 89 gun arrests in the five boroughs over the past month, a 67-percent dip over the 270 busts from the same period in 2019. Murder arrests were down nearly 48 percent over the span, from 44 last year to 23 this year.

The drop in last week’s numbers is even steeper, with three murder arrests in the week ending Sunday compared to 13 over the same period last year, a nearly 77 percent falloff. Gun arrests were down 71.6 percent, with 21 this week and 74 in the same week last year, the statistics show.