Shootings in New York City rose for the third weekend in a row, even as Mayor Bill de Blasio and police officials have sought to implement new programs to stop the violence.
Between Friday and Sunday, the city had 22 shooting incidents with 24 victims, according to figures kept by the New York Police Department. There were five incidents and five victims during the same period a year earlier.
From the start of the year through July 17, the number of shootings in the city has increased by 66.8%, compared with the same period in 2019. Meanwhile, the number of shooting victims has grown by 77.5%, according to the NYPD. Some violent crime has increased as the city began easing lockdown restrictions over the new coronavirus in early June.
Mr. de Blasio and NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea on Friday introduced new tactics to curb violence, including deploying additional officers to areas where shootings have taken place, and increasing efforts to foster coordination between police and communities.
Mr. de Blasio said at a press conference Monday that these efforts have already begun to yield results, but other issues, including delays in prosecutions and other factors associated with the new coronavirus pandemic, have hampered progress.
“We’ve got a lot of interrelated problems,” Mr. de Blasio said.
In a television appearance on Fox 5 New York on Monday, Mr. Shea said that NYPD morale is at a low point after weeks of large-scale protests over the killing of George Floyd, a Black man, while in police custody in Minneapolis. The demonstrations have called for changes to policing and defunding of the NYPD and other police departments.
In response to the protests, Mr. de Blasio signed a new law that criminalizes police use of chokeholds. Mr. Shea has said the law discourages officers from policing.
“This is a crisis right now in New York City and we need tools to keep New Yorkers safe,” Mr. Shea said in the interview Monday.
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams over the weekend called for the city to investigate the possibility that in response to the changes, police officers have been staging a slowdown in enforcement. Mr. Shea said in the TV interview that there wasn’t a slowdown.
David Kennedy, director of the National Network for Safe Communities at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said that other U.S. cities have also seen increases in violence that may be linked to the pandemic and shifting public opinions on the police.
“It’s not clear anywhere exactly what’s going on,” Mr. Kennedy said.
Write to Ben Chapman at Ben.Chapman@wsj.com
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