While hate crime numbers have risen, the NYPD says overall crime is at multi-year lows.

February’s stats show shootings were down more than 30 percent compared to last year.

Murders ticked up slightly, but the NYPD says the arrest numbers are near their lowest level in 25 years.

Officials say strategies like neighborhood policing are helping.

“We have a lot of momentum on our crime-fighting efforts right now. A lot of things going very well,” said Dermot Shea, NYPD deputy commissioner for operations. “We’ve been tracking shooting incidents since 1994. When we looked at shooting incidents in 1994, we were looking at 3- to 400 a month, sometimes close to 500 a month. We’ve recorded 40 this February. That’s the lowest number for any month in those nearly 25 years that we’ve ever recorded in New York City.”

Officials say crime also went down in each of the city’s five boroughs.

(Source: NY1)