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'Reclassifications' Drive Increase In Number of Killings this Year

By RICHARD KHAVKINE
Posted 12/6/19

A spate of killings in recent weeks has brought the number of murders citywide to 299 so far this year, 24 more than the city recorded through November last year.

NYPD officials, though, attributed the increase to an unusually high number of reclassifications of incidents from prior years. Chief of Crime Control Strategies Lori Pollock said 27 reclassifications—deaths whose causes were for a time uncertain but which were ultimately classified as homicides by the Medical Examiner—have so far been included in the city’s murder tally this year, compared to 13 in 2018.

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