Cooler weather did not quell the surge of violence that has befallen the city’s streets this year, with police recording significantly more than double the number of shootings last month than they did a year earlier. And after dropping slightly in October, homicides also climbed in November.
The 115 shootings last month represented a 126-percent increase over the 51 in November 2019, police said. The 28 people murdered in November were five more than were killed 12 months earlier.
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