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Excerpt from nypost.com
New York City’s homicide rate remains higher than it was before the pandemic in 2019 — even as the national average has largely returned and even dropped below pre-pandemic levels, a major new national crime study has found.
Homicide rates are up about 20% through the first half of 2024 compared to the same time in 2019, the Council on Criminal Justice’s (CCJ) newly-released Mid-Year Crime Report found.
And while the city’s homicide rate was is down 20% from the same time in 2023, over the last three years the city has been consistently unable to return to pre-pandemic homicide levels of about 1.5 murder victims per 100,000 people.
“‘I’m left here with nothing but memories,” said Danette Hollie, whose 37-year-old son Nazim Berry was fatally shot in the back of the head after refusing to give a madman a free cigar at a Crown Heights bodega in February.
