No one reported shot, stabbed or slashed in New York City on Monday

Not a single person was reported shot, stabbed or slashed in New York City on Monday, police sources said.

The shutout seemingly caught the NYPD by suprise, as officials were almost at a loss to explain it.  Neither Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne nor other officials could remember the last time a day ended with three zeros.

It likely didn't happen in 1990, when the city logged a record 2,245 murders, said Tom Reppetto, a NYPD historian and author of "American Police, 1945-2012."

The lack of gun and knife violence on Monday may be rare, but not a complete surprise, given that the city is on pace to finish the year with just over 400 murders, the fewest number of murders since about 1960.

Murders this year are down 23 percent -- 472 last year and 366 this year.  And there have also been 10 percent fewer people shot -- 1,674 last year and 1,514, about five a day, this year.  In 1994, the year the NYPD started Compstat, its computer tracking of crime, 4,967 people were shot -- almost 14 a day.

Sources said the emphasis on its stop and frisk initiative has changed the way criminals think, with more likely to carry a knife because a gun conviction carries a heavier penalty.  And slashings, sources said, are often an indicator of gang activity

To be sure, someone did pull a trigger Monday -- a 16-year-old walked into Bronx Lebanon Hospital in the early evening with a gunshot wound to his right thigh.  But police later determined the teen accidentally shot himself and was not involved in a crime.

The streak ended 11:20 a.m. Tuesday when a 27-year-old man was shot in Brooklyn.

I just want to know did they check the East River and all the garbage bins for bodies before declaring Monday murder free?

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