In New York this year, the fewest murders in half a century

The number of murders in New York this year is the lowest in the last 50 years, said the mayor of that city, Michael Bloomberg. Bloomberg said at a ceremony held in honor of the New York police that since the beginning of the year, there have been 414 murders, which is significantly less than last year. when 515 people were killed in New York. This balance is the lowest since data on the number of murders on an annual basis began to be collected in 1963. The previous "record holder" in the lowest number of murders was 2009, when 471 murders were committed, while the highest number was recorded in 1990 - 2.260, reports Tanjug. "According to the data available to the police, the number of shootings in the city has also decreased significantly," said Bloomberg, a longtime advocate of stricter gun laws. New York, the most populated city in the United States of America, with more than eight million inhabitants, although the leader in the total number of murders, has a significantly lower murder rate than other large American cities - 3,8 per 100 thousand inhabitants.