Mayor Eric Adams throughout off matter questions on Could 6.
Photograph by Lloyd Mitchell
The Adams administration’s north star has at all times been public security. New Yorkers wish to ship their children to high school, go to work, store of their native retailer, exit for dinner, and are available house safely to their household and neighborhood. They wish to really feel secure and be secure. And we’re delivering for them. Since day one, we’ve gone to work to comb out crime and unlawful actions from our neighborhoods.
We’ve got eliminated over 22,300 unlawful weapons from our streets, tackled subway crime, critical psychological well being points, and brought on quality-of-life points. The numbers are in; and the second quarter crime information for this yr exhibits our public security technique continues to make our metropolis secure. We’ve got now had six straight quarters of lowering crime — since January 1, 2024.
For the primary six months of 2025, shootings are at their lowest level in recorded historical past, tying the document beforehand set in 2018. And if you evaluate this six-month interval to the identical interval in 2021, proper earlier than the Adams administration started our mission to deal with violent crime, shootings are down an astronomical 54 %.
Main crime is down 5.5 %, equating to three,348 fewer main crimes. That’s hundreds of people that didn’t fall sufferer to a criminal offense as a result of we remained targeted. Homicides are down greater than 23 % this yr. Theft, felony assault, housebreaking, grand larceny, and auto theft additionally proceed to say no year-to-date. For the month of June, crime was down 6 %, with declines in each single main crime class. Which means drops in murder, rape, theft, felony assault, housebreaking, grand larceny, and auto theft.
Our subways are getting safer, with transit crimes declining in June, within the second quarter, and year-to-date. That is due to the surge of police in our transit system the place we want them most, on our trains and on our platforms. Due to these efforts, we’ve reached one other document, with robberies within the transit system on the lowest they’ve ever been.
Enterprise house owners have additionally seen retail theft drop by greater than 17 % in June, and about 10 % year-to-date, guaranteeing cash stays in onerous working New Yorkers pockets and never within the arms of criminals.
And we proceed to maintain all our communities secure, with hate crimes declining by 17 % drop within the second quarter, and 16 % yr so far. This year-to-date decline has been pushed by decreases in antisemitic hate crimes, that are down 18 % and Muslim hate crimes, which is down 11 %. Hate crimes based mostly on sexual orientation, are additionally down 47 %.
This discount in crime isn’t any accident; it’s the results of our administration’s clear and persevering with concentrate on taking over crime and high quality of life points. We’ve got listened to New Yorkers and labored to make our metropolis safer.
By way of our Group Hyperlink Initiative, we’re addressing high quality of life issues like unlawful merchandising, overflowing trash, extreme noise, substance use, and unlawful autos. We’ve got taken 100,000 unlawful autos and mopeds off our road because the begin of the administration, and shut greater than 1,500 unlawful smoke outlets, that are reopening as thriving small enterprise.
All these numbers present actual progress. However we won’t relaxation, we’ll proceed to work tirelessly day by day and in every single place to construct a safer, extra reasonably priced metropolis that’s the finest place to lift a household. Due to our steadfast concentrate on public security, and the onerous work of the courageous women and men of the NYPD, New York Metropolis stays the most secure huge metropolis in America.
