"The chickens are coming home to roost!"
Bullets are whizzing around New York this month at a rate not seen in nearly a quarter century, according to the NYPD — and police sources said that the recent run of gunplay will be the new normal.
Through the first three weeks of June, which came to a close Sunday, city streets echoed with 125 shooting incidents, Chief of Crime Control Strategies Michael LiPetri told The Post on Monday.
“We have to go back to June of 1996 to get a worse start for June,” said LiPetri. “That is a telling stat.”
Twenty-four years ago, Rudy Giuliani was mayor and, while the city had made strides in tamping down crime, Gotham still saw 2,938 people shot and 984 murdered.
From Monday, June 15, through Sunday, there were 53 shooting incidents across the city, the highest mark for a single week since Mayor de Blasio took office.
The last time the city recorded that many shootings in a week was around July 4, 2012, according to police sources.
But to find a non-holiday week — which tends to be quieter — with that many shootings, the department had to look all the way back to 2005, according to LiPetri.
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