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Cops have had a break from the grimmest of scenes this past week.
An 18-year-old man shot and killed on a Brooklyn street Monday ended a seven-day stretch with no homicides, police records show.
The unidentified teen took a bullet to the back near 53rd St. and Avenue J in Flatlands about 10:15 p.m.
Emergency workers rushed the bleeding victim to Kings County Hospital, where he died. No arrests were immediately made.
NYPD data shows it was the first killing in a week. Cops investigated eight murders during the same week last year, according to the records.
It was the longest murder-free period since the nine days from this past Jan. 17 to Jan. 25 — a streak that coincided with a bitter cold snap, officials said.
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There’s been no demand for this sort of art lately: chalk outline of body on the ground.
The city’s top cop credited the Finest with curbing bloodshed.
“We had no homicides in the city, which is, I think, emblematic of how safe the city has become and what a great job the New York City police officers are doing,” Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly told reporters during the annual Columbus Day Parade.
The Big Apple’s last reported killing occurred on Oct. 6, when a 49-year-old Brooklyn man was shot dead while sitting in a car on St. Marks Ave. in Bedford-Stuyvesant, cops said.
Emmanuel Capers was struck numerous times in his upper body about 5:40 p.m. that day by a gunman who fled the scene, cops said. There have been no arrests in the case, cops said.
The current streak of no homicides surpassed a period after Hurricane Sandy that lasted seven days, from last Oct. 30 to Nov. 5, the NYPD said.
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NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly called the murder-free stretch ‘emblematic of how safe the city has become and what a great job the New York City police officers are doing.’
There have been 256 murders so far this year as of Sunday, compared with 346 in the same period during 2012, according to NYPD crime data. That’s a decrease of about 26%.
The number of murders committed with guns is down by 60 from last year: 148 in 2013 through Sunday compared with 208 in 2012 through the same period — a decrease of about 28.8%.
The city logged 2,245 killings in 1990, the highest total since record keeping began.
Mayor Bloomberg has suggested murder levels could rise as a result of court-ordered reforms to the NYPD’s controversial stop-and-frisk policy. The City Council pushed through two bills this summer that would rein in the practice by creating an inspector general for the NYPD and making it easier for New Yorkers to sue the city if they believe they’ve been racially profiled.
But the murder-free weeks this year have come during a period in which the NYPD has cut back sharply on stops, according to statistics that city lawyers provided to Manhattan Federal Judge Shira Scheindlin in the lawsuit over the practice.
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