Governor Hochul Announces Significant Progress in the State's Fight Against Gun Violence

Statement

Governor Kathy Hochul today announced significant progress in the state's fight against gun violence, with New York City and communities participating in the state's Gun Involved Violence Elimination initiative reporting the fewest shooting incidents with injury last month since the first half of 2020. The 20 police departments participating in GIVE reported 50 shooting incidents with injury in January 2023, the fewest since March 2020, while New York City reported 73 incidents, the fewest since May 2020. Governor Hochul outlined this progress at Northwell Health's Fourth Annual Gun Violence Prevention Forum.

"We are taking major steps in the right direction, but these numbers are still too high," Governor Hochul said. "Each and every incident is tragic, and each shooting represents an unquantifiable amount of pain and harm to victims and their communities. We must continue treating gun violence as the public health crisis that it is, by identifying the source, interrupting its transmission, and treating it."

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