The NYPD sent out a short statement on Friday evening touting the dramatic decrease in homicides across the city in 2012.
"As of today, there have been 136 murders in New York City, less than one a day and 20 percent lower than last year," the statement read.
The statement added that if the trend continues, New York City will experience a record low by the year’s end.
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Included with the release was a PDF chart, included at right, which detailed the murder victims from 2011.
Queens was the site of just 16 percent of the murders that occurred in the city last year. Brooklyn was far and away the borough with the highest percentage, accounting for more than a third of the city's slayings.
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Backing up Mayor Michael Bloomberg's intense lobbying for stricter gun control laws was the fact that 61 percent of the city's murders last year were shootings.
According to the most recent COMPSTAT numbers, there have been no homicides in the 112 Precinct this year.
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