Shootings in New York City have dropped by a whopping 20% for the first nine months of the year, although the age of shooting victims is starting to trend younger, the NYPD said Wednesday.

By the end of September, cops had investigated 553 shooting incidents in the city — 140 fewer than by this time last year, NYPD officials said.

The figure marks the lowest number of shootings in the city since the CompStat (computer statistics-driven policing) era began in 1994, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said during a press conference at NYPD Headquarters on Wednesday.

“We’ve had the fewest shootings in the first nine months of any year,” Tisch said.

Yet, in a troubling trend, those who are being shot have gotten younger, NYPD Chief of Crime Control Strategies Michael LePetri said, addi

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