- 7/1/2025
During a press conference on Tuesday, NYC Mayor Eric Adams read off the latest crime statistics.
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00:00Good afternoon.
00:19I'm really glad to be here with the police commissioner,
00:25Chief LaPetri, and the entire executive team, and Deputy Mayor Kaz Daughtry.
00:33And just really want to say thank you to the men and women of the New York City Police Department.
00:40It has always been my North Star to make sure our city is safe, not only as the mayor, but also just as a police officer.
00:49And it was important that we put in place a clear plan on how to accomplish that.
00:58And we had an ocean liner of crime that we had to turn around, and it doesn't turn around instantly.
01:07We had to put in place programs and initiative that was, they both were proactive and reactive.
01:14And you're seeing the results of proper planning, proper execution,
01:20and not allowing one who think an experiment can get in a place of experience.
01:29Experience matters, and you're seeing the results of that.
01:34And I said over and over again throughout my time in public life that public safety is the prerequisite to prosperity.
01:43That's the number one thing I've heard throughout my time in office, and now as the mayor of the city of New York.
01:50If you are not safe, you cannot send your children to school, you cannot go to work, you're afraid to be on our public transportation system.
01:59You're just afraid to enjoy the parks every day.
02:02Safety matters, safety matters.
02:05People want not only to be safe, they must feel safe.
02:11We focus on that over and over again, and this administration is delivering just that.
02:16Our 2025 second quarter crime data shows that our public safety system is working.
02:23We are continuing to drive down crime throughout New York City.
02:28And you see it everywhere, from below ground to above ground.
02:32And which traditionally has been a significant place where crime has existed in our public housing.
02:39Public housing residents deserve the same safety that I expect in front of Gracie Mansion.
02:47You should have it in Marlboro Public Housing.
02:50That is our focus.
02:52And we're going to continue to drive down crime.
02:54We have gone to work to sweep crime and illegal activities from our neighborhoods, and the success is clear.
03:01And when you add that to our quality of life division,
03:06we're now focusing on people feeling safe because we knew it mattered.
03:11So I want to start with the top line.
03:14Major crime was down in June.
03:16Crime was down in the second quarter of 2025.
03:20Crime is down this year, and crime is down overall this year, and crime is now down for the sixth quarter in a row.
03:27I said that all fast, so let me slow it down.
03:32Major crime was down in June.
03:35Crime was down in the second quarter of 2025.
03:40Crime is down this year, and crime is now down for the second quarter in a row.
03:47Homicides down, rape, robbery, felony assaults down, burglary down triple digits.
03:56Grand larceny and auto theft were down.
04:00Additionally, shootings were down with double digits declines in June.
04:05Actually, that doesn't do it justice.
04:08Shootings were down 30% for June.
04:11June, the hot month.
04:13Everyone knows when you're into summer, you're dealing with a whole summer safety plan.
04:18You're dealing with a whole shift in policing.
04:20We all are concerned about the months of June.
04:24Retail theft, something that plagued the country.
04:28But here in New York, down more than 17%, and a place that is extremely important to me, hate crimes.
04:38Hate crimes were down, as were crimes in our housing developments.
04:43And this is important because our efforts of removing over 22,300 illegal guns off our streets.
04:532,600 this year alone we removed off our streets.
04:58And those 2,600 weapons will no longer threaten the life of individuals, families, loved ones, and disrupt communities.
05:06And so, for the first six months of 2025, shooting incidents reached their lowest level in New York City's recorded history.
05:17In the first six months, tying the previous wreckage, which had been set in 2018.
05:24And the number of shooting victims for the first six months of the year, they're located now at record lows.
05:34They beat the previous 2018 record with 14 fewer shooting victims and beat last year by 125 less.
05:45Those are 125 people that are alive today, families and friends.
05:53So far this year, we've had 100 fewer shootings compared to the same period last year.
06:00And when you compare this six month period to the same period in 2021, right before we came into office,
06:07shootings are down and astronomical, 54%.
06:15These are real results.
06:17Year to date, major crime is down 5.5%, equating to 3,348 fewer major crimes.
06:26Thousands and thousands of people are no longer being traumatized by being a victim of crime.
06:33And those who committed the crimes are incarcerated, particularly these serious crimes.
06:39And so I don't understand when people say empty out rikus and put them back into the communities who were inflicted with violence.
06:46People who commit these crimes don't deserve to be on our streets.
06:49Homicides are down more than 23% so far this year.
06:54We are down 36% when you compare it to the same six month period in 2021, right before we came into office.
07:02Robbery, felony assaults, burglaries, and grand larceny, and auto theft have all continued to decline this year.
07:10Additionally, crime dropped in our transit system, 4.6 million riders, and we are protecting them every day.
07:18And I want to thank those transit officers and men and women who are in our system for doing the right thing and keeping our system safe.
07:25Chief Gallardo, you're doing one heck of a job.
07:28Thank you so much.
07:30Thanks to our efforts tackling subway crime and serious mental health that have affected quality of life in our trains.
07:37When you look at the scout programs and how we have partnered police with mental health professionals,
07:42we're targeting and zeroing in on how important it is to remove those who need help off our system.
07:50We're not going to place homeless shelters in our subway system.
07:55Doesn't work.
07:56They need to be in facilities where they deserve to be.
07:59Another record so far this year, robberies in the transit system are at the lowest level ever, lowest level ever.
08:11Retail theft continues to drop 11.7%.
08:16This is an area that the commissioner and I talked about a lot that I'm really pleased for.
08:23Hate crimes fell by over 17% in the second quarter,
08:29leading to a drop of 16% year to date.
08:34We witness an 11% decrease in hate crimes towards Muslims.
08:40We witness an 18% decrease to date, year to date.
08:47And when you look at our Jewish brothers and sisters,
08:51we've also witnessed a decrease in hate crimes towards our Jewish brothers and sisters by 18%.
08:58This year, we have more to go, a long way to go, but we're moving in the right directions.
09:05As well as hate crimes based on sexual orientation, which they're down by 47% since January.
09:13And you have to really understand how important this it is.
09:19When people are treated unfairly, when people are the victims of crimes based on their sexual orientation,
09:25their religious belief, their ethnicities, that strikes at the core of our city and
09:30it's unacceptable and we are responding to it head on and directly.
09:35And all these reductions in crimes are no accidents.
09:40There are results focusing on everything that we're putting in place daily.
09:45These results were achieved by pounding the payment with police officers assigned to hot spot zones.
09:51Something that the commissioner focused on, created, and Chief Le Petri and
09:56his understanding of our crime and our analysis, putting police officers where they should be when they need them.
10:05Everywhere, all the time.
10:07Through our community link initiative, we have responded to over 1,600 complaints and conducted over 1,800 operation.
10:15Addressing quality of life concerns like illegal vending, overflowing trash, excessive noise, substance use, and illegal vehicles.
10:25Seize more than 100,000, 100,000 illegal vehicles off our streets.
10:31Not walking past them, not allowing ghost plates to be on our cars, illegal scooters, four-wheel dirt bikes.
10:38We have really focused on these quality of life issues.
10:42And we have been clear, this administration will not tolerate crime.
10:46Or allowing the feeding of anything goes on our streets and in our neighborhoods.
10:51And that leads to disorder, and we were clear to zoom in on that.
10:57And thanks to the deep bench of leaders we put in place across the administration, you're seeing the results that we all look for.
11:04Because fighting crime is not only a police officer's job, ACS job,
11:10Department of Education's job, our employment, DYCD's job.
11:16We all have to be part of this crime fighting apparatus, and that's what we have done.
11:22We're making our city the place, best place to raise a family, and a place where you know that your city is looking out for you.
11:29And nothing personifies that more than what is important to me, public safety.
11:34We have to be safe as a city, and we continue to do so.
11:38And I want to thank you personally, Commissioner Tish, for a job well done.
11:41I'm going to turn the podium over to you.
11:48Good afternoon.
11:50The first six months of 2025 tell a clear story.
11:55New York City is achieving record-breaking public safety milestones.
11:59The numbers speak for themselves.
12:011,700 fewer grand larcenies, nearly 1,100 fewer robberies, 44 fewer murders.
12:09And nowhere is that progress more striking than in our shooting numbers.
12:15In the first half of 2025, shooting victims fell to their lowest levels ever recorded,
12:21down 24% year over year, 24% in the second quarter, and 35% in the month of June.
12:29Let me repeat that.
12:31The fewest number of shooting victims ever recorded in the first half of any year in New York City.
12:39And that didn't just beat the previous low, it shattered it.
12:44398 victims compared to 411 victims in 2018, and 125 fewer than last year.
12:54And I have to point out that it's less than half the number we saw in the first half of 2021,
13:01the year before Mayor Adams took office, when 852 New Yorkers were shot.
13:08The first half of this year also saw the fewest shooting incidents in modern history, tying
13:13the all-time low that was set in 2018.
13:17Six months in, that's a full 100 fewer shootings this year versus last year.
13:23A 23% drop citywide, with declines in all five boroughs.
13:28Shooting incidents were also down 30% in June, and 22% in the second quarter.
13:35This progress is no accident.
13:37It's no mystery either, just a very clear formula, strategic deployments, precision takedowns,
13:43and getting guns off of our streets.
13:46And it's our cops who bring that strategy to life, who take the plan, they hit the streets,
13:51and they make it work.
13:53But none of this happens without real backing from Mayor Adams, who's made public safety
13:59his top priority, and ensured this department has the tools, the resources, and the support
14:05to get the job done.
14:07When the critics called to cut funding, he chose to cut crime.
14:11When the pressure came to back down, he chose to double down.
14:16And when others tried to make headlines, he chose to make a difference.
14:20So, let's talk about our strategic deployments, which have been one of the most important
14:24drivers behind this progress.
14:27In January, we launched a scalpel data-driven strategy to reduce violent crime, identifying
14:3342 deployment zones across the five boroughs with the highest concentrations of crime.
14:39We sent targeted daily deployments into those zones based on real-time data.
14:45It was just 3.5% of the city's land across the five boroughs accounts for 41% of all shootings.
14:55That's not just concentrated violence.
14:58That is a clear call for precision policing.
15:02And the results this winter were undeniable.
15:05That's why we've now rolled that success into the summer with our bold and, yes, aggressive
15:11summer violence reduction plan, expanding into 72 summer zones across 59 communities.
15:19This is the largest deployment of its kind in NYPD history, with up to 2,000 uniform cops
15:26on footposts in the places where we know that crime occurs the most.
15:32Those are long, grueling nights in conditions from extreme heat to pouring rain on street
15:38corners, in housing developments, and in our subways.
15:42Since the launch of our summer plan on May 5th, major crime in these zones is down 27% during
15:49deployment hours.
15:51Most notably, shootings and shooting victims have dropped a staggering 64%.
15:58We've also seen felony assaults fall by 41%, robbery by 27%, and grand larceny by 13%.
16:06This initiative will continue through the rest of the summer.
16:09We'll keep applying pressure exactly where the data point us to ensure the weeks ahead
16:14are just as safe.
16:16Then there's our precision takedowns.
16:19Over the past several months, NYPD detectives have carried out major takedowns of some of the
16:24the most violent gangs in this city.
16:27Crews like Trenda Aragua, Los Diablos, Nine Rack, Third Side, and the 18th Street Gang.
16:33These are the groups that drive violence, traffic guns, and terrorize our neighborhoods.
16:39And thanks to the truly extraordinary work of our investigators and, of course, critical
16:44tools like the Criminal Group Database, we have dismantled their operations and taken violent
16:50offenders off the streets.
16:51So far this year, we have carried out 42 gang-related takedowns, arresting 322 gang members and associates,
17:02and recovering 236 illegal guns as a direct result.
17:07That is part of a broader effort that's taken more than 2,600 illegal firearms off the streets
17:13citywide in 2025 alone.
17:16And since the start of the Adams administration, the NYPD has taken more than 22,300 guns off
17:23of our streets.
17:24Make no mistake about it.
17:26We are reaping the benefits of those cumulative efforts now in our shooting numbers.
17:33In the first six months of this year, overall, major crime was down 6% citywide.
17:38It's down in four out of our five boroughs, led by Queens at 12%, Staten Island at 10%, Brooklyn
17:43at 8%, and Manhattan at 5%.
17:46While major crime was slightly up in the borough of the Bronx, we saw real progress in some
17:51of the neighborhoods, in some of that borough's most challenging areas, including the 4-4 precinct,
17:57where overall crime was down 11% so far this year.
18:01And shootings and shooting victims dropped there by more than 70%.
18:07Major crime was also down more than 5% in housing and more than 3% in transit citywide.
18:14Let's break down the seven major crime categories.
18:18Citywide murders were down 23%, 146 versus 190, marking the second lowest total ever recorded
18:25for the first half of any year in New York City.
18:29Robbery has long been considered a key benchmark crime, a key indicator of how safe people feel
18:35walking their neighborhoods, riding the subway, or just going about their day.
18:40It's also a crime that had been stubbornly on the rise in recent years.
18:44But this year, we have broken that pattern.
18:46Citywide, robbery was down 13% through the first six months of the year, with declines across
18:52all five boroughs, grand larceny, down 7% citywide through the first half of the year, thanks
18:58to our focused effort on shoplifting.
19:02Shoplifting arrests are up 144% compared to 2020, as we've targeted the crews and repeat offenders
19:10driving this crime.
19:12And that strategy is working.
19:14We're seeing fewer of the same individuals cycling through the system again and again.
19:19And we've worked closely with our district attorneys to make sure that these cases are taken seriously.
19:24A few years ago, prosecutors were downgrading up to 66% of NYPD's grand larceny arrests to
19:30lesser charges with lighter sentences.
19:33This year, that number has dropped to 34%, the lowest rate in nearly a decade.
19:40In 2025, more serious shoplifters are being convicted on felony charges than at any point since 2018.
19:48We'll keep applying pressure where it's needed to make sure that number continues to decline.
19:53Auto theft, that was down 5% in the first half of 2025, a significant shift for a crime that's
19:58been one of this city's most challenging in recent years.
20:03Burglary dropped 3% citywide in the first half of 2025, including an 8% decline in the second
20:09quarter and an 11% drop in June alone, marking the second lowest June on record.
20:17While felony assaults are down only slightly year to date, an 8% drop in June suggests that we're
20:23beginning to turn the corner.
20:26Rape was the one index crime that rose up by 21% through June.
20:31That increase is in large part due to a change in state law that took effect in September of 2024,
20:38which expanded the legal definition of rape to better reflect the full range of these crimes.
20:45Because of that change, we expect to have a clearer year-over-year comparison starting this fall.
20:53In the first half of the year, major crime in the subway system fell by more than 3%, including a staggering 75% drop in subway shootings,
21:02a 67% fall in murders, a 7% reduction in grand larcenies.
21:08And subway robberies hit an all-time low for the first half of the year, down 8% year-over-year.
21:15You would have to go back to 2010 to find a six-month stretch this safe in the New York City subway system,
21:24including the pandemic years when ridership was at historic lows.
21:29This progress is the result of our transit safety plan, which put thousands of officers in the subway system
21:36and focused on where the crime actually happens.
21:4073% of all subway incidents happen on trains and platforms, so that is exactly where we increased our presence.
21:49But we didn't just increase presence, we redefined our approach.
21:54That included enforcing long-standing rules against lying outstretched, taking up multiple seats, smoking, drinking, and more.
22:03For too long, those violations went unchecked, and that eroded the sense of safety for everyday riders.
22:11So we made a change. This isn't a dragnet, and it's not harassment.
22:16It's about restoring basic order and responding to what New Yorkers have told us clearly,
22:22that disorder breeds fear and makes the system feel unsafe.
22:28Take the case of James Williams. On June 6th, he was lying across multiple seats on a subway car
22:34when officers approached him. When officers checked his name, they discovered that he was wanted in
22:39connection with a 2024 rape inside the Union Square station. He was arrested on the spot.
22:46This approach has helped us restore order in the system and take violent wanted offenders off of our streets.
22:52At the same time, it's allowed us to connect people with the services that they need, like shelter,
22:59mental health care, and other critical support. Across all of our outreach efforts in the subway system,
23:05we have connected over 5,000 people to services this year, working hand-in-hand with clinicians.
23:13This is what New Yorkers have asked for, a transit system that feels more orderly, responsive, and safe.
23:22But it's not just the subway. Even as major crime has dropped to record lows, New Yorkers continue to
23:28tell us that they still don't feel safe. That's why in mid-April, we launched the NYPD's Quality of Life
23:35Division to address the daily problems that chip away at people's sense of safety. The abandoned car
23:42that hasn't moved in months, the illegal scooters flying down the sidewalk, the noise that keeps them
23:48up at night. In just 75 days, our Q teams responded to nearly 11,000 911 and 311 calls, towed over 4,000 vehicles,
23:59seized over 200 illegal e-bikes, mopeds, and scooters, shut down problematic smoke shops,
24:06helped clean up more than 500 encampments, and we only have the pilot running in six pilot precincts.
24:16That's why starting this month, we are expanding this division into every precinct citywide by Labor Day.
24:22Before I close, I want to highlight two people whose extraordinary leadership is directly
24:29responsible for the results that I have had the honor of outlining today for all of you.
24:35Chief of Department John Schell, who is a respected leader and has overseen firsthand the successful
24:42execution of the strategies that brought about these wins. Chief Schell lives this stuff.
24:49And our Chief of Crime Control Strategies, Mike LaPetri, simply put, Chief LaPetri is a crime-fighting
24:58genius. In a moment, he will walk through some of these numbers in greater detail. But first,
25:05I want to thank once again, Mayor Adams, whose leadership made all of this progress possible.
25:11And as always, it's the women and men of this department who absolutely crushed it during the
25:19first half of this year. Every number we share today, every reduction, every life saved reflects
25:27their work. Because of them, New York is safer today than it has been in years. And I think it's pretty
25:36clear that in the first half of 2025, none of us came to play. And these results speak for themselves.
25:45Now, I will turn it over to Chief LaPetri.
25:49Good afternoon.
26:00The mayor and the police commissioner talked about historic lows for shootings, and you have to go back to 2018 to get to those historic lows.
26:10Well, it was a lot different in 2018.
26:12Not taking anything away from the policing that was done in 2018, but since then, since that.
26:19Criminal justice reform, raise the age, less is more, thousands of illegal smoke shops, havens for violence and lawlessness.
26:30A 2800 decrease in uniformed officers, extreme recidivism with no consequences, and a sharp decrease in the population of Rikers Island.
26:49The extreme recidivism, Albert Holmes, seven-time convicted felon, two-time violent felony convictions, a predicate violent felon, 40 years, 40 years of criminal history preying on New Yorkers.
27:10He does a vicious stabbing prior to criminal justice reform, and he gets incarcerated for approximately eight years.
27:20When he gets out post-criminal justice reform, he goes on a complete tear.
27:27These are not sealed arrests.
27:29These are all live arrests.
27:31In 2023, he gets arrested 20 times.
27:34In 2024, he gets arrested 19 times.
27:40And this year, he's been arrested 10 times.
27:44If anybody wants to know, he's out on the streets of New York City right now, probably preying on a New Yorker.
27:49He gets arrested on 6-7, gets an RR by a judge after the Manhattan DA's office acts for bail.
27:56He gets arrested the next day, goes over the bridge to the Bronx, gets arrested in the Bronx, gets an NMR, non-monetary release, which means absolutely nothing to him.
28:07And finally, he gets arrested back in Manhattan on June 10th, and now he's walking around the streets with two warrants, again, preying on New Yorkers.
28:17The year prior to the mayor coming into office, 2021, I just have to repeat this.
28:27This year, we've seen 400 less shootings and 455 less victims.
28:34Think about that.
28:36Incredible.
28:37This year, geographic boroughs across the city not only see reductions in shootings, all five of them,
28:45they all five, at least 15%, reduction in shootings.
28:51The commissioner talked about the 4-4.
28:54I'll talk about the 7-3 in Brownsville, Ocean Hill, Brooklyn.
28:59Down 42% in shootings this year.
29:04Since 2021, down 45% in shootings this year.
29:10In the violence reduction zone, there are down seven shootings in their violence reduction zone.
29:17Incredible.
29:18We talk about the decrease in June in shootings.
29:21Well, add May, and it's a 34% decrease in shootings citywide for those two months.
29:2886 shooting victims, obviously the lowest in June.
29:32So how are we doing this?
29:33Many different ways.
29:34But I do want to highlight the summer violence plan.
29:38It is not just cops on dots.
29:39It is not.
29:41There is many things that go to the effect and effectiveness of this plan.
29:47First of all, it includes all bureaus in the NYPD.
29:52Both on the uniform side and the civilian side.
29:55We've asked our patrol officers to get out there, hit the streets, our transit bureaus, our housing bureau officers, our gun violence suppression division, our intelligence bureau.
30:08Not just human intelligence.
30:11Social media.
30:12Things of that nature.
30:13We've asked them to do things differently in these zones because they need to be treated differently.
30:18And here's an example from this morning.
30:19PSA 7, which covers the Bronx, field intelligence team, gains intelligence of an individual with a firearm.
30:31They're focused in the polo grounds, in the 3-2, in Harlem, because it is a summer zone.
30:38This morning, they arrest an individual and recover eight firearms.
30:44That's precision.
30:46That's doing something different.
30:47Our special operations bureau in the summer zones.
30:52Everybody involved.
30:53Our detective bureau investigators doing things differently.
30:57Highest caseload that we've ever seen them have.
31:00They're taking petty larcenies of shoplifting because we can't stand for the recidivism that we see.
31:06We can't stand for the top 25 locations that drive shoplifting across the city.
31:13And the police commissioner and the mayor said, I'm proud of what we're doing.
31:18We are nowhere near where we need to be when it comes to shoplifting and other crimes, to be quite frank.
31:25But we are clearing shoplifting complaints almost at a 50% clearance.
31:30That means almost 50% of our shoplifting complaints have an arrest to it.
31:35And a lot of these are low-level arrests, with the detectives having the lowest number – I'm sorry, the highest number of cases.
31:42Our response time to larcenies in progress at the lowest level.
31:48We're getting there faster than ever.
31:50We're holding our commanders accountable.
31:53And they're doing a phenomenal job.
31:54I want to get back to the summer zones.
31:58It's not just police officers and detectives.
32:00Yes, they are the majority of getting out there and hitting those streets.
32:03The front-line supervision has to be there.
32:05We've asked our sergeants and our lieutenants to do things differently.
32:08Our commanders, hold them accountable.
32:12And it's working.
32:14Let's take Manhattan North.
32:15Manhattan North takes a tragic shooting of a 17-year-old in May.
32:21Two days later, in the heart of one of the summer zones, we have a retaliatory shooting.
32:27The very next day – actually, no.
32:29That day, we started moving resources right into that area, quickly.
32:35The next day, we formalized the plan.
32:38And guess what?
32:39Since that shooting in May, we've seen an 86% reduction in Manhattan North shootings since that time, since May 9th to present.
32:51And 86% – that's because we move with speed, we've moved with seriousness, and we move with intelligence.
32:57And we gather intelligence in a lot of different ways.
33:00Criminal Group Database being one of them.
33:04Saving lives.
33:04And we talked about one of the safest Memorial Days, if not Memorial Day weekends, that the city saw.
33:14So, again, like the commissioner said, we build off our success, we learn from our mistakes.
33:21So, we're going to build off that success for Memorial Day.
33:24And we're going to be better on July 4th weekend.
33:28You're going to see New York City police officers in 28 of the most problematic parks.
33:33Not just two, but many.
33:35You're going to see firearm suppression like you've never seen it before.
33:40Lawlessness that we do not stand for.
33:42Car meet locations.
33:44We know where they are.
33:45We'll be there.
33:46We know when they move, and we'll move with them.
33:48Actually, we'll beat them there.
33:51I just want to talk about the Roosevelt Avenue zone.
33:56Been in the news.
33:57The mayor's always spoken about it since he took over the administration.
34:00I know the police commissioner also in November.
34:03The Roosevelt Avenue summer zone is down 62% since May 5th in overall crime.
34:09Robberies have fell 64%.
34:12Felony assaults, 54%.
34:15The summer zone plan does not focus just on shootings.
34:20It focuses on street-level crime that we feel we can affect the most.
34:25And when you look at the felony assaults, the robberies, and the shooting incidents, and
34:31shootings reduction, it is clearly working, but we all know we have a lot of work to do.
34:35So I want to thank everybody.
34:37You know, my partners here in all the other bureaus, the police commissioner, and the mayor.
34:43Thank you very much.
34:46All right.
34:47We're going to do on-topic questions now.
34:50On-topic.
34:51Charles.
34:51Good afternoon.
34:57Despite the drop in shootings and index crimes, felony assaults are still stubbornly high.
35:03Do you have an explanation?
35:04Sure.
35:05It's being driven by a couple of categories.
35:07So, unfortunately, we do have a small uptick in our elderly assaults.
35:12We do have a small uptick in assaults on police officers and our domestic assaults.
35:17What I do like to report, and in our 72 violence reduction zones, we're down 41% in felony assaults during deployment hours.
35:29And that's a big part of our deployment.
35:31So we're not just there for shootings.
35:33We're there to make New York safer in a lot of different ways.
35:36Other on-topics?
35:38Yeah.
35:39Yeah, I guess for the mayor, you've often talked about the 22,000 gun seized since your administration started.
35:49That's 2,600 this year.
35:52That's still a lot of weaponry, although the shootings are down, the victims are down.
35:55Are there more guns out there than we know, and is that going to be an intractable problem going forward?
36:02Well, I think it's a combination.
36:04I think Chief LePetri, he pointed out the circumstances we are policing under is different from circumstances previously.
36:12When you look at bail reform, when you look at raise the age, when you look at less is more,
36:17all of these entities contributed to some of the shootings, some of the problems that we're facing.
36:25Too many guns are on the street.
36:27During, I think it was my first year in office, and I invited President Biden to come to the city
36:32and to meet with the police department because we didn't have an ATF director,
36:37and he was able to appoint an ATF director.
36:40That coordination on the federal, state, and city level is crucial because we have to stop the flow of guns.
36:45We don't manufacture guns here.
36:47What are they doing in the hands of our young people?
36:51And so we want to continue that collaboration.
36:53The governor has been a partner on this issue, and we're going to continue to coordinate with our federal partners.
37:00We have to stop guns from coming into these cities like New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and others.
37:08That is the focus.
37:09What we're doing here is collaborating with our district attorneys to do these gang takedowns.
37:15We saw the numbers, and those are the shooters.
37:19Those are the trigger pullers, and we're focusing on taking them down,
37:23and also the day-to-day officers doing smart heads-up policing,
37:28not doing illegal stops and frisks that we saw eons ago, but smart, targeted, precision policing.
37:36That's allowing us to go after these guns, and it's crucial.
37:40You want to ask something?
37:41Monica?
37:42Monica, how are you?
37:43Monica, Commissioner, you always advocate for the changes in the state law to help you do the job here in the city.
37:50And I know the commissioner has also spoken about it,
37:53but currently what is the biggest thing you would like to see change in the state law?
37:57Right now, we're very focused on the raise the age law.
38:08The raise the age law changed the age of criminal responsibility in the criminal justice system in New York State.
38:17And since that law started going into effect, it went into effect in multiple phases.
38:24We have seen an absolute explosion in youth violence.
38:30And one of the problems is that we know that when kids are the trigger pullers, they often kill other kids.
38:39And basically, kids are living in a virtually consequence-free environment now in New York State as it relates to major crime.
38:49And so we're seeing more and more gangs recruiting younger and younger kids, both to hold the weapons and to pull the trigger.
38:59Stefan, on topic?
39:01Mr. Mayor, the female MTA worker in Brooklyn was assaulted by two passengers who wouldn't pay the fare.
39:07The union is asking for more MTA police in high-crime areas.
39:11Do you think that would help?
39:13There, you know, you have the transit police and you have the MTA police.
39:20Both entities are collaborating to bring down crime.
39:25And, you know, omnipresence is real.
39:28And that was one of the things that the commissioner put in place,
39:32a more visible presence of our police officers to deter illegal behavior.
39:39I would love to look at an analysis of who assaulted her.
39:45You know, I would bet a few dollars that the person has a criminal record history.
39:50You know, I'm not sure.
39:51I haven't looked at it.
39:53But Bill Bratton showed us back when he was a police commissioner that people who don't pay their fare,
40:01they have a propensity to commit crimes on the system.
40:05And he was big on preventing that from happening.
40:07And we want to do the same.
40:08There was a great pushback by our lawmakers to decriminalize theft of service.
40:16And that was wrong.
40:18We know that you have to, it starts at the gate.
40:22And I just, you know, I think the commissioner touched on raise the age.
40:25Look at how much we had to fix.
40:28We had to go back and change what was happening with bail reform.
40:31We had to go back and change what happened with the cannabis laws.
40:34We had to go back and change the mental health issue.
40:36We had to go back and change the raise the age.
40:39We had to look at less is more.
40:41We had to change discovery.
40:42We are on the ground policing while individuals are in the sterilized environments of their legislative chambers,
40:50making these decisions that's impacting real New Yorkers.
40:53And so when you have people think they can just hop the turns out.
40:57Deputy Mayor Daughtry and I were at 125th Street and Lexington Avenue Station.
41:02And we couldn't believe how you would have thought the system were free.
41:06Matter of fact, one person asked us and said, nobody pays.
41:09So when we enforce the laws, we're preventing chaos and disorder.
41:15And we need our lawmakers to be partners with us because everyday people are being impacted.
41:21When we have people not paying their fare, it raises the cost of the subway system.
41:25And then when you assault a TA employee who's just doing their job, it sends the wrong message.
41:31And so we feel that as many police officers as possible we want in the system.
41:36That's why we're bringing on 4,000 new officers.
41:39We're increasing the numbers.
41:40We want to make this occupation attractive again.
41:43We made some changes and we're seeing a boost in those who are enrolling.
41:49So yes, we want more.
41:50We want young men and women to be a part of this amazing career.
41:54Because I think that police officers make great teachers and they definitely make great mayors.
42:03Yeah, last on topic for Bernadette.
42:07Charlie?
42:08Okay, why don't we do?
42:09We good?
42:10Are you doing off topic?
42:11Yeah, I'm going to do a few.
42:12Do you have an on topic?
42:13Yeah, I have an on topic.
42:14So, hi.
42:15So, sorry, that just threw me for a little bit.
42:19No, no, no, you're good.
42:20So, you guys are talking about focusing on mental health and expanding quality of life
42:25teams.
42:26Zarin Mamdani also has a plan to expand mental health teams and kind of reshape the department.
42:33He also wants to add a department of community safety.
42:36Would that help or hurt what the NYPD is doing?
42:39And then also Mayor Adams, President Trump talked today, said you'd be a good independent
42:45candidate.
42:46He helped you a lot.
42:47And he also said Mamdani.
42:52So, let's talk about the public safety stuff.
42:57Look at these numbers.
43:00This is a moment of having experience, not a moment where you're doing an experiment.
43:10Experience over experiment.
43:13That's where we are right now.
43:15And when anyone that wants to defund the police based on their own words.
43:21Anyone that says they don't want to hire new police officers when we talk about hiring 4,000.
43:28Anyone that believes they want to empty Rikers Island.
43:32And when you do an analysis of where people who are in Rikers Island have committed their crimes.
43:39They are in black and brown and poorer communities.
43:42When you empty Rikers, you're sending them back to the communities that they have hurt in the first place.
43:49And so, I think it speaks for itself.
43:52Right now, we should not be doing an experiment when we have real results and we have expertise to make New Yorkers safe.
44:02The numbers don't lie.
44:03I'm not making this up.
44:04The numbers don't lie.
44:05And New York can't go backwards.
44:08I policed in the 80s.
44:10I know what the city was like.
44:12We can't go backwards.
44:13There's a reason we have more jobs in New York City in the city's history.
44:17There's a reason, Broadway had the finest 12 months of activity in the history of the city.
44:24We can't go backwards.
44:25That is why I said over and over again, I learned from my days of Bill Bratton, public safety is the economic stimulus package for our city.
44:35If we're safe, we will have businesses.
44:38We'll have families.
44:39We'll have a city where people want to go to.
44:42And so, we can't go backwards.
44:44And so, I'm not ready to do an experiment.
44:46I hope none of you are ready to do an experiment.
44:48All right, sorry.
44:49We're going to go to off-topics.
44:51We're going to do a quick off-topic.
44:52See, you blew your chance for your off-topic.
44:54Because you say we're going to go to off-topic.
44:55I want my team to leave.
44:56All right, come on.
44:57You know?
44:58Okay, we all good on our topic?
45:00Okay, so let me just let my team leave.
45:04Because they've got crime to fight.
45:05And I'll do a few off-topics.
45:06I know.
45:07We're going to that part of it.
45:08Okay.
45:09Can you send me off-topic?
45:10No, I didn't.
45:11I said he wasn't doing it.
45:12Yeah.
45:13All right.
45:14All right.
45:15Go ahead.
45:16Zephan, go ahead.
45:17You may see a path forward.
45:32Obviously, the nominee disagrees.
45:34How do you, what do you make of the ranked choice voting results today?
45:37You know, people talk about doing a rent freeze.
45:42They talk about what they would do.
45:44You know, there are systems in place so that mayors and executives can't be heavy handed.
45:51That's an independent committee.
45:54Independent committee.
45:56And I cannot appoint an independent committee and then make an attempt to dictate what they're going to do.
46:03Then why do we have a committee?
46:04Why don't we just say the mayor will determine what the increases are?
46:08They do an analysis.
46:09They come up with numbers.
46:10We wanted a low end from the numbers, as low as possible.
46:16Because we know tenants are hurting.
46:18We know affordability is a real issue.
46:20No one knows that better than me.
46:21I grew up in a household where affordability was a real issue.
46:25And that independent committee came up with a number.
46:28And I don't want folks to lose sight on something that no one really wants to talk about.
46:34There is a mindset out there that there's never a time to raise rent.
46:39Never a time.
46:40You never raise rent.
46:41Leave them the way they are, no matter what.
46:45I had a forum with small property owners last week, I believe it was.
46:51And you should hear these stories.
46:54You know?
46:55The same body of people are saying don't increase rent at all.
46:59We're saying no rent during COVID.
47:02No rent.
47:03What do you tell a family who has a 14 unit building?
47:08All their wealth is tied up in it.
47:1125% of the tenants are not paying any rent for whatever reason or another.
47:16And then as taxes go up, heat goes up, everything goes up.
47:21We're telling them you can't do anything to increase those costs.
47:26That's just unfair.
47:27It's just unfair.
47:29And so, yes, it sounds good.
47:32I got it.
47:33It sounds good to give everything away free.
47:36It sounds good to say never increase the rent.
47:40But if you're the mayor of the city of New York, you have to balance with those working class people who are trying to make ends meet.
47:48And those tenants who are trying to make ends meet.
47:51We're in this together.
47:53And if we go through this city, you should interview some of these small property owners.
47:59They're losing their homes.
48:01Then big LLCs come in and buy up all of these small properties.
48:05And so, I just think it's irresponsible to take a position without speaking to these small property owners.
48:12These are not the enemy of our city.
48:14These are hard working people.
48:17And a large number of them are immigrants, you know.
48:20And so, I would love for them to stay at the 1% range.
48:25But it's an independent body.
48:26And that independent body made a decision.
48:28All right.
48:29We're going to do one more.
48:30Mark Morales.
48:31Sorry.
48:32Mark Morales.
48:33Good.
48:34Good.
48:35Good.
48:36I was wondering if you could address some of these comments that the president made earlier this morning.
48:39He was talking about Zoran Mamdani saying that, you know, we'll have to arrest him if he interferes with ICE.
48:47And he also talked about you and saying that you were.
48:50If he interferes with ICE, arrest Mamdani.
48:52If he interviews with ICE.
48:54Interferes.
48:55I'm sorry.
48:56Interferes.
48:57Yeah.
48:58If he interferes with ICE, he'll have to be arrested.
48:59Just wondering, where do you stand on that?
49:00And he also talked about you were a good independent option.
49:05And he obviously supported you.
49:07So, where do you stand on both of those?
49:09Well, when no one should.
49:10I've said this over and over again.
49:12And I'm going to continue to say it until it resonates.
49:14And people may appreciate it in a period of reflection.
49:19ICE is a federal law enforcement agency.
49:23It is not some illegal entity.
49:27This administration will collaborate with our federal agencies when it comes to criminal behavior.
49:34We're not going to collaborate if it comes down to civil enforcement.
49:39The law doesn't allow us to do that.
49:41And anyone that is elected or not should never interfere with federal authorities carrying out their function.
49:50Because if someone doesn't like ICE, what happens if you don't like the IRS?
49:55What happens if you don't like the environmental protection?
49:58You just can't pick and choose.
50:00And you know, my pet peeve is disorder.
50:02I don't feel comfortable about this disorder.
50:05You know, maybe it's my blind side that I just don't like disorder.
50:10We can't have systems of disorder.
50:13And so I would encourage anyone not to interfere with federal authorities legally carrying out their actions.
50:23And so the president makes his determination what he's going to do.
50:27I'm not a federal elected official.
50:29I keep saying that over and over again.
50:30I'm a city elected official.
50:32I'm the mayor of the greatest city on the globe, and that's New York City.
50:35And I have enough things to improve on in this city that I'm doing than to talk about what they're doing on the federal level.
50:42We've got federal authorities.
50:43Federal authorities need to do their job.
50:45One more.
50:48Would you accept an endorsement from President Trump?
50:53Mr. Mayor, would you accept an endorsement from President Trump?
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