NYPD top cop Dermot Shea: Bronx shootings are ‘back to a level not seen since 1996’

The Bronx has not experienced this amount of gun violence since the mid-1990s, the city’s top cop said Tuesday — as he decried the borough’s rampant gang warfare exclusively detailed by The Post.

“The Bronx is back to a level not seen since 1996,” NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said on NY1 — noting that “in the last six months of last year, we had 1,000 shootings in New York City. “We’ve had a bad run right now in the Bronx, specifically with gang violence involving young kids,” Shea said.