New York Had Its SAFEST January EVER – Murders Slashed 60%, Shootings Down 20%. Crime Is Crashing And Nobody Wants to Admit Why
New York City just dropped the mic on crime stats for january 2026, and the numbers are straight-up jaw-dropping. Murders? Down a savage 60% — from 30 in january 2025 to just 12 this year. That’s not a dip. That’s the lowest number of homicides ever recorded for any january in the city’s entire history. Shootings? Down 20% (40 incidents vs. 50 last year). Shooting victims? Slashed almost 31% (47 vs. 68). Manhattan and Staten Island? zero murders. Not one. For the whole damn month.
Official NYPD data (released Feb 2, 2026) doesn’t lie: this is the safest january on record for gun violence and the fewest january murders ever. Compare it to december 2025 — already a record-low month with 15 murders and 35 shootings — and january 2026 still managed to drop murders another 20% even as shootings ticked up slightly to 40. Overall trend? Still screaming downward.
NY1, AMNY, the New York Post — they’re all saying the same thing: historic low after historic low. The city that was once bleeding out nightly is suddenly posting numbers that look like they belong in a different decade. So why does this feel so quiet? Because the narrative was built on chaos, fear, and “the city is dying.” When the data flips and shows real, measurable safety gains, it forces everyone to confront an uncomfortable question: what actually worked?
NYC isn’t fixed overnight, but january 2026 just proved the bleeding can stop — and stop hard. The stats don’t care about politics. They just keep getting better. Welcome to the safest january New York has ever seen. Whether anyone celebrates it or not, the body count doesn’t lie.