Shootings continue to rise across the city this year, according to data released Monday — and the NYPD is turning to new technology to try to stem the bloodshed.
The number of shootings jumped from 32 to 41 last week, a 28 percent increase from the same period in 2013 and part of a 9.3 jump for the year, the latest statistics show.
The number of shooting victims is up 9.5 percent for the year — while the number of guns recovered dropped 5.8 percent. There have been 11.7 percent fewer gun charges so far, too.
Still, murders were down 9.5 percent — part of a “continuing overall decline in crime,’’ Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said.
The department is planning to shell out hundreds of thousands of dollars to further test audio technology that uses specially designed microphones to “pinpoint, in seconds, the precise location of gunfire.”