The NYPD underneath boss Jessica Tisch this 12 months is blowing away document lows on shootings, and coming impressively shut on murders. Kudos to her and the drive.
The massive query now: Can Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani sustain the momentum, even together with his anti-cop agenda?
Begin with homicides, which plunged to only 297 by Dec. 21. Sure, that’s 297 too many useless deaths, but it surely’s 20% fewer than the 377 killings in 2024, and more likely to beat out the quantity in 2019 (319), the 12 months earlier than cashless-bail kicked and murders began hovering.
Want extra? For the primary 11 months of this 12 months, town really broke the all-time low for shootings set in 2018, with 44 fewer incidents (652 vs. 696) and 16 fewer victims (812 vs. 828).
And get this: “NYC has recorded 1,000 FEWER capturing victims than in 2021,” tweeted Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch on Christmas Eve.
That’s one of the best Christmas present town may get.
True, different cities are additionally seeing massive drops of their homicide charges: Chicago, which has had appallingly excessive numbers of murders, noticed a 28% drop; Washington, DC, the place President Donald Trump deployed troops, practically 28%.
However in Gotham, after a blended few years, Mayor Eric Adams can take credit score for retaining his 2021 marketing campaign vow to roll again violent crime.
Misguided criminal-justice reforms, plus soft-on-crime judges and prosecutors gave criminals free rein to wreak havoc, and main felonies are nonetheless on tempo this 12 months to return in 25% increased than in 2019.
Toothpaste stays locked behind show instances.
However Adams and Tisch targeted assets on violent recidivists, high-crime areas, gangs and unlawful weapons, and it’s made a distinction.
Throughout one outstanding stretch within the fall, the Massive Apple went 12 consecutive days with no murder.
Now the problem will probably be for Workforce Mamdani to stick with it, at the same time as he appears to be like to defund cops and take different measures that might gasoline against the law resurgence.
The ball will probably be in your arms now, Zoh. Don’t fumble it.
