Armageddon is not upon us.
The city experienced the lowest crime rate in August, September and October since at least 1994, new statistics show.
Total crime, which focuses on the so-called seven majors — murder, rape, robbery, felony assault, burglary, grand larceny and grand larceny auto — is down 7.9% for the last three months as compared to the same period last year, data reveal.
Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said the record lows are proof that both his liberal and conservative critics need to back off.
“The reality of this city is that the city is getting safer and it’s getting safer because the cops are focusing on what they do and by and large are not paying attention to the left or to the right, which is appropriate,” Bratton said.
The NYPD’s top cop singled out the City Council, where some members have endorsed legislation that would require police obtain the consent of someone they stop before searching them. Conservative critics, meanwhile, have said that Mayor de Blasio’s policies will result in a return to the bad old days of rampant crime.
But hard data tell a different story.
The three-month total crime rate is the lowest since the NYPD began tracking it through the CompStat system.
The city is also on a record-low pace for murders and burglaries.
Bratton has credited his Summer All Out initiative, a 90-day crime-fighting strategy started in July, for the decrease.
He said it also helped slow the rate of shootings — a source of concern within 1 Police Plaza.
There have been 1,207 shooting victims this year as of Nov. 9. For the same time period in 2013, there were 1,135 shooting victims. That’s a 6.3% increase, when earlier in the year it had been as high as 13%.
Bratton took pride in the department’s homicide clearance rate of 77%.
“Considering that almost a third of our shooting victims are uncooperative — that they don’t want to talk to us at all about who shot them — we do very, very good,” he said.
“Our rates are probably some of the best in the nation.”
rparascandola@nydailynews.com
With Erik Badia
