Crime in New York City Halts on Monday - First Time in Memory

"For the first time in memory," New York City went one day without crime.

According to The New York Daily News, the New York City Police Department did not record a single shooting, stabbing or slashing on Monday, Nov. 26.

"Nice way to start the week," Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne told the newspaper.

Tom Reppetto, a NYPD historian, told NYD that there were shootings galore in the city, especially in 1990 when 2,245 people were murdered.

"We lived in a town where people were afraid to come out of their houses, where babies slept in bathtubs to avoid getting shot, where nursery schools ran drills - 'When you hear the shots, drop down," Reppetto said.

By year's end, about 400 people will have been murdered in the city - down from 472 last year.

The report said that the last before Monday's peaceful day was "10:25 p.m. Sunday, when a man in Bedford-Stuyvesant was shot in the head and badly wounded by a gunman wearing a red and black jacket and black hat."

On Tuesday, a 27-year-old man was shot in Brooklyn at Ralph and Flatlands Ave.

NBC New York reported that "total crime is up in the city by 3 percent this year, but officials attribute that mostly to an increase in grand larcenies connected to the rise in smartphone and tablet thefts. Police have implemented a series of programs to deter those crimes, particularly in subways."