Since day one, our administration has been clear about our imaginative and prescient for the 5 boroughs — making a metropolis that’s safer, extra economically viable, and extra livable for the 8.3 million hardworking New Yorkers who name the best metropolis on the earth house. I all the time say that “public security is the prerequisite to prosperity.” That’s why, since coming into workplace 24 months in the past, we’ve been devoted to creating positive New Yorkers are safer and really feel safer.
Two years later, the outcomes are in. Crime has gone down throughout the town and jobs have gone up. Now we have recovered the entire practically 1 million private-sector jobs we misplaced through the pandemic, and New York stays the financial engine of this nation.
After we got here into workplace in January 2022, the town was rising from the devastating results of the COVID-19 pandemic, and, in only one week, an 11-month-old child was shot within the head, law enforcement officials have been shot night time after night time, and NYPD Detectives Rivera and Mora have been each murdered. The reminiscence of that week will stay with me all the time.
However, as of Dec.31, 2023, it’s official: total crime was down in 2023. Each murders and shootings have been down double digits as soon as once more in 2023, with murders down 12 p.c, and capturing incidents down 25 p.c — the very best lower in capturing incidents in our metropolis since 1995.
These decreases construct off of reductions that had already begun underneath our administration in 2022. And I need to be clear: these aren’t simply numbers — these are lives saved, households stored collectively, and neighborhoods and communities spared from tragedy and trauma.
Shootings have been additionally down in all 5 boroughs — all throughout our metropolis — in 2023 as in comparison with 2022. This implies our mannequin of precision policing and our 360-degree method to tackling crime have been working. Our administration continues to assist our officers and discover upstream options to uplift probably the most susceptible in all our communities.
Moreover, transit crime declined in 2023, and we have now made nearly 2,000 arrests associated to auto theft — the very best quantity in 20 years. And within the final two years, we eliminated greater than 13,500 unlawful weapons from our streets.
We all know that site visitors violence can also be violence, and so we cracked down on unlawful scooters and mopeds, seizing greater than 12,500 unlawful mopeds and scooters in 2023 — this was a 74 p.c enhance over 2022, and the very best variety of mopeds and scooters confiscated in New York Metropolis historical past.
All these measures taken collectively, together with our efforts to proceed the struggle in opposition to unlawful and “ghost” weapons, have laid the inspiration for our financial restoration. And, in simply two years, greater than 285,000 jobs have been created underneath our administration.
Due to the arduous work of NYPD Commissioner Caban, the courageous women and men of the NYPD, Deputy Mayor Banks and his public security crew, and the opposite commissioners and companies which have labored hand-in-hand on our public security efforts, New York Metropolis stays the most secure massive metropolis on this nation.
And we’re going to be sure that it stays that method by working arduous for New Yorkers every day of 2024, and within the years to come back.
