NEWYORK: New York city Mayor Eric Adams said that for the seventh straight month overall crime is down in the city.
Speaking at media briefing, NYC Mayor Adams said that 17,000 guns off our streets and overall in July, we saw 4.2 percent decrease in crime, including robberies, burglaries, felony assault, grand larceny, and grand larcenies.
He said that grand larceny was a real problem when we first came into office, but we’re seeing some of our initiatives are actually working. “And this is on top of six straight months of double digit drops in subway crime, including the lowest number of robberies in recorded histories on our subway system,” he said.
On Olympic performance of American athletes, he said that not only are we a global city because of our athletes, but even our public protection.
“We’re the Olympic Village of the globe, and we like to make sure that people are safe and we’re just really now ahead to New York City’s finest, our canines, our four-legged furry ones in Paris, the last two weeks ensuring the games were protected,” he said.
“We’re just really pleased of the participation in police departments. So, we want to welcome Detective Andy Barron and his partner, Canine Vito, and Detective Nick Velez and his partner, Canine Rico. Thank you, thank you, and I’ve got a treat for them. Let’s give it up for them. Just outstanding work. And it’s always good when… I remember 9/11, how many people came from all over the globe to be here to assist us during that tragedy. And we want to do the same. It was a really challenging aspect to have that many people in Paris. But they did an excellent job with the partnerships of the law enforcement community across the globe,” he said.
On 14th Street, livability, he said that this has been a real issue. “I spent a lot of time walking the corridor of 125th Street, 14th Street, and other parts of our city that have historically had real problems with quality-of-life issues,” he said. “We announced our community improvement coalition to protect public safety, improve the quality of life on 14th Street, and I’m excited about seeing how we can turn around these communities in a real way,” he added.
To a question, Mayor Adams said that goal is clear that public safety revitalizes our economy, and makes our city and country as livable as possible.
