Andrew Kerr
Investigative Reporter
August 23, 2020 9:34 PM ET
A surge of gun violence in New York City is targeting mostly black people, according to New York City Police Department data.
Shooting incidents involving black victims were up 177% in June from the same time period in 2019, NYPD data show.
No other racial group was victimized by shootings at anywhere close to the same rate, the data show.
New York City officials voted to subtract nearly $1 billion from the NYPD’s funding in late June.
Black people have been victimized by gun violence at a far greater rate than any other racial group amid a surge of shootings and murders in New York City, according to New York City Police Department data reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
There were 194 shooting incidents that involved black victims in the city in June, a 177% increase from the 70 recorded in June 2019, according to NYPD Incident Level Data. Of those incidents, 27 were classified as murders, a 170% year-over-year increase from the 10 black people murdered in shootings in June 2019.
No other racial group has been victimized by shootings in New York City at anywhere close to the same rate black people have been since violent crime began surging in the city in mid-May and further accelerated in the weeks after George Floyd’s police-custody death in Minneapolis, the data show.
The city council voted in late June amid the surge in gun violence to remove nearly $1 billion from the NYPD’s budget and transfer the funds to youth and community development programs.
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