Actually I would bet , and Ray Kelly reflected this in an interview I read with him a couple years back, that domestic violence and drug-related violence account for over 80+% of the murders. He said something to the effect that they have the murder rate as low as it can go from a prevention standpoint.

This also plays into the rate of random murder. An overwhelming majority of the drugs and all of the domestics are murders between people who know each other. Your chances of getting killed by a random person in NYC are slim to none., Far greater chance of getting hit by a car.


What's also interesting is that if you were shot with a bullet 20 years ago and died in 2012 as a result of that bullet (injury to organ, long-term issues) NYPD classifies that as a murder.