So far in 2021, 1,828 people have been shot in New York City, surpassing the 1,821 who were shot in the same time period in 2020, which was the worst crime spike year in more than a decade. The New York Police Department (NYPD) stated that, there were 1,526 gunshot occurrences in the city's five boroughs through December 19, compared to 1,490 during the same period previous year.

According to the NYPD, shootings continued across the city in the days after December 19, with five people shot on Christmas Eve in two different instances in Brooklyn, and a 27-year-old NYPD school safety agent shot dead on Thursday in Queens, with two others injured in the same case. As a result, the number of shooting victims and occurrences this year will be considerably higher.

According to the NYPD website, the city registered 1,868 shooting victims in 2020, up from 923 in 2019, a 102 percent increase, while shooting occurrences increased by 97 percent from 777 to 1,531.According to NYPD data, gunshot victims in 2020 were predominantly minorities, with 73.9 percent being black and 22.5 percent being Hispanic.

In New York City in 2020, blacks and Hispanics accounted for 65.0 percent and 26.4 percent of murder victims, respectively.

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