China News Service, March 22. According to comprehensive US media reports, there have been multiple shootings in New York City recently, injuring a total of 29 people.
In response, New York stepped up its crackdown on street guns and shooters.
There were 24 separate shootings in New York City over the weekend of March 18-20, in which 29 people were shot, compared with six in the same period last year.
FILE PHOTO: NYPD officers gather in Times Square.
According to reports, on the 18th, a woman was attacked in Harlem.
On the afternoon of the 20th, a subway shooting and a deli shooting occurred in eastern New York, the two incidents were only minutes apart.
As of March 20, there have been 253 shootings and 284 people have been shot in New York City in 2022, according to the NYPD.
Earlier, the first anti-gun teams in New York had begun patrolling 28 areas where shooting incidents increased during the epidemic on the 14th local time.
On the 21st, the NYPD deployed five additional anti-gun teams in some of the city's most violent neighborhoods.