By Michael V. Cusenza
Mayor Eric Adams and City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch on Thursday touted the crime statistics for the first quarter of 2025.
“Since the start of modern crime tracking, there has never been fewer [shootings] in the first quarter of the year,” Hizzoner said. “But it’s more than that and we’ll continue to look at where our success lies. It’s not just shootings. New York City also saw the second fewest number of murders in recorded history. The second fewest numbers of murders in recorded history.
“Transit crime has gone down by double digits in the first quarter for all boroughs. Thanks to the surge of police in the transit system, when we started out with the subway safety plan, 1,000 police officers and Commissioner Tisch brought in the program of cops riding on the subways. It has made a major impact. And it’s thanks to that presence, the omnipresence that we talked about, that we’re seeing the numbers that we’re seeing, but also retail theft. We had a retail theft summit yesterday. And we are speaking with our retail establishments.
“We’re seeing and witnessing an 8-percent drop year to date. And so when I go over the numbers this quarter, we have a 34.4-percent decline in murder, 23-percent decrease in shooting, and six of the seven major crime categories decreased in March, including murder, which was down 51 percent and robbery by 19 percent and I’m sure the commissioner is going to go over some of the additional numbers. And we are really on track of going after those guns.”
“This is how you raise healthy children and families in a safe environment in the city,” Adams concluded. “Job well done for the entire team.”
Tisch said the credit goes to the cops.
“As we review the crime data for the first quarter of 2025, it is immediately clear. The crime and violence reductions we’re seeing right now in New York City are historic. In the first quarter of this year, our city hit major public safety milestones and the credit, as the mayor said, absolutely belongs to the men and women of the NYPD,” Tisch said. “They have the full support of our great mayor, Eric Adams, who has rightfully made public safety his first priority from day one. And they have millions of grateful New Yorkers who respect and appreciate their noble work. That work, to put it simply, has been extraordinary.
“For the first three months of this year, overall, major crime is down 11 percent citywide, and it’s down in every borough, led by Brooklyn and Queens at more than 15 percent, Staten Island at 14 percent, Manhattan at nearly 9 percent, and the Bronx now down more than 4 percent. Major crime is also down more than 18 percent in transit and more than 11 percent in housing. We have double-digit crime reductions in our patrol precincts, in our subways, and in our housing developments. And we have made historic progress in our fight against gun violence.”
