NEWYORK: New York city Mayor Eric Adams announces citywide crime statistics for the second quarter of 2024.
Speaking at briefing, Mayor Adams said that the prerequisite to prosperity is public safety and justice.
“The city must be safe. It is something that not only i have personally dedicated my life to but the many women who are here have dedicated their lives to doing so,” he said.
Mayor Adams said that over thousands of thousands of protests we were witnessing in the city, particularly after October 7th and you were seeing the presence of dangerous people who have arrived in our city.
He said that a small proportion of those who are part of the migrants and asylum seekers that have arrived here, some of them are participated in gang behavior and it is not a representation of the large number of migrants and asylum seekers who are here to pursue the next step on their dream to be in America.
He thanked the men and women of the New York City Police Department and said that they have been really addressing the issue of violence and disorder in our city, and we cannot thank them enough. “I say it over and over again, heroes don’t wear capes. They wear blue uniforms, and they are continuously providing the service that we expect with the level of professionalism that we want,” he added.
He said that six straight months, crimes has decreased. “This administration has inherited a 40 percent increase in crime when we took office, we saw everything from shootings to illegal mopeds, dirt bikes, ghost cars. We have had a full frontal assault on disorder. When you have six straight months of a decrease in crime, it says that the initiatives that we have put in place, they’re working. We know that if it bleeds, it leads, that some of the cases that take place would be on our front pages, but in reality, New York City is the safest big city in America. Safest big city in America,” he added.
Mayor Adams said that in January we had a bump and we put 1,000 officers in the system after the January bump.
“You saw February, March, April, May, and June, a decrease in our subway crimes. A real operation, 1,000 new cops in the system. A partnership to deal with those with severe mental health illnesses and going after those habitual repeaters and focusing on something that was ignored for eight years, those who refused to pay their fare and it became just so routine that we said we’re not going to allow it to happen in our system because taxpayers should not have to pick up the cost of those who have money and refuse to pay. That led to the six straight months that we are seeing,” he added.
He said that homicides are down for the year to date as well as the quarter of this month.
Police Commissioner Edward Caban said that the men and women of the NYPD continue the critical work that has made New York the safest big city in America.
He said that major felony crime is down in four of seven categories year to date, including reductions in murder, burglary, grand larceny, and auto theft. This work led to a 2 percent drop in overall major crime for the first six months of this year compared to last.
“Crime is down across all of our operational bureaus: in our patrol precincts, housing developments, and in our transit system. Furthermore, both shooting incidents and victims continue their city-wide declines in 2024, extending the downward trend we’ve seen over this last two and a half years, he added.
He said that since 2022, the NYPD has taken more than 17,000 illegal firearms off our streets, including more than 3,400 guns seized in just the past six months alone. “I can tell you these weapons will never again threaten innocent New Yorkers. We also work closely with our law enforcement partners to make sure that the violent criminals who carry them are brought to justice,” he added.
