By Forum Staff
Mayor Eric Adams and City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch on Tuesday announced that citywide statistics continue to show a decrease in crime in the Big Apple.
Queens leads all boroughs with a 12-percent dip in major crime over the last six months.
“Year to date, major crime is down 5.5 percent equating to 3,348 fewer major crimes,” Adams said. “Thousands and thousands of people are no longer being traumatized by being a victim of crime. And those who committed the crimes are incarcerated, particularly these serious crimes. And so I don’t understand when people say empty out Rikers [Island] and put them back into the communities that were inflicted with violence. People who commit these crimes don’t deserve to be on our streets.”
Hizzoner added, “Homicides down. Rape, robbery, felony assault down. Burglary down triple digits. Grand larceny and auto theft were down. Additionally, shootings were down with double digits declines in June. Actually, that doesn’t do it justice. Shootings were down 30 percent for June—June, the hot month. Everyone knows when you enter summer, you’re dealing with a whole summer safety plan. You’re dealing with a whole shift in policing. We all are concerned about the month of June.”
Also, overall major crime dropped 3.2 percent in the subway system in the first half of 2025; total index crime was down 9.3 percent vs. the same period 2019, and felony arrests were up 12.8 percent vs. 2024.
“Partnership with thousands of NYPD officers, the best in the world, along with strategies funded by Gov. [Kathy] Hochul and the Legislature—with 31,000 cameras across every train car and station, cops all over the system all night, and guards at entrance gates—are both reducing crime and perception of risky rides. That’s why ridership surged to over four million people in the subway on weekdays, that and the best service in a dozen years,” said Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chief Security Officer Michael Kemper.
Tisch boasted that the City “is achieving record breaking public safety milestones. The numbers speak for themselves: 1,700 fewer grand larcenies, nearly 1,100 fewer robberies, 44 fewer murders. And nowhere is that progress more striking than in our shooting numbers. In the first half of 2025 shooting victims fell to their lowest levels ever recorded, down 24 percent year over year, 24 percent in the second quarter and 35 percent in the month of June. Let me repeat that. The fewest number of shooting victims ever recorded in the first half of any year in New York City. And that didn’t just beat the previous low, it shattered it—398 victims compared to 411 victims in 2018 and 125 fewer than last year.”
Tisch praised the work of NYPD detectives in carrying out major takedowns of some of the most violent gangs in the city as a major catalyst of the consistent drop in crime.
“Crews like Tren de Aragua, Los Diablos, 9RAQ, Third Side and the 18th Street Gang. These are the groups that drive violence, traffic guns and terrorize our neighborhoods. And thanks to the truly extraordinary work of our investigators and, of course, critical tools like the Criminal Group Database, we have dismantled their operations and taken violent offenders off the streets,” Tisch said.
