New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams.
Photograph courtesy Workplace of the Mayor of the Metropolis of New York
Our mission as an administration has all the time been clear: making New York Metropolis reasonably priced and preserving it the most secure huge metropolis in America. Now we have been in a position to obtain this by being powerful and good on crime, each on our streets and within the subways.
Due to our efforts, New York Metropolis has seen 9 straight months of crime discount, and crime continues to development downward in New York Metropolis. Total index crime was down 3.1 % in September, 3.3 % for the third quarter, and is down 2.0 % 12 months so far.
Homicides, housebreaking, grand larceny, and grand larceny auto are all down 12 months so far. And in September, we additionally noticed decreases in homicides, robberies, burglaries, grand larcenies, and grand larceny autos.
Moreover, transit crime can also be down 12 months so far. It was down 8.7 % in September, down 4.8 % for this quarter, and is down 5.1 % 12 months so far.
Now we have achieved 9 straight months of crime discount by exhausting work and perseverance. Now we have taken a number of vital steps like eradicating greater than 18,500 unlawful weapons from our neighborhoods, arresting violent criminals, and taking greater than 70,000 unlawful mopeds and ghost vehicles off our streets because the begin of our administration.
We’ve closed greater than 1,200 unlawful smoke outlets. And we’ve put extra police on the streets and on our subways.
We’re additionally tackling the foundation causes of crime by investing in upstream options, like schooling, reasonably priced housing, after-school and vacation college programing, and early intervention.
Certainly one of our signature interventions is the “Partnership Help for Transit Homelessness,” or PATH, program. This initiative brings collectively groups of skilled nurses and outreach workers from the Division of Homeless Providers, and NYC Well being + Hospitals together with the NYPD transit police, who conduct co-response outreach in a single day at subway stations throughout Manhattan.
Since PATH started on Aug. 29, lower than two months in the past, the groups have made contact with over 1,500 unhoused New Yorkers and delivered providers to over 500 folks. That’s over 500 New Yorkers who acquired very important assets, like shelter, garments, meals, or medical consideration due to our intensive efforts.
That is the compassionate factor to do, and we might be increasing this system within the months to come back so we will attain much more New Yorkers in want.
To be clear: we’re under no circumstances saying those that are unhoused and in want of assist are the first supply of crime on the subways or that they should be in jail — as a result of they don’t. However they don’t should be ignored both. That’s the reason our administration has been targeted on connecting unhoused New Yorkers to providers for his or her security and doing this work in a compassionate method.
The PATH program will complement, not exchange SCOUT, a profitable co-response initiative we function with the MTA to assist folks battling severe psychological sickness. It’ll additionally complement our ongoing nightly Finish-Of-Line efforts and our whole Subway Security Plan.
Simply this previous week, an MTA employee was violently assaulted at an end-of-line cease in Brooklyn. Fortuitously, our officers have been proper there to apprehend the suspect. This illustrates why it’s so vital to proceed our work and ensure we’re in a position to proactively supply assist to those that want it.
Being mayor of New York Metropolis means taking care of the wants of all New Yorkers. And our whole workforce works tirelessly every day to realize that imaginative and prescient and ship outcomes — preserving New York Metropolis the Most secure Massive Metropolis in America.
