Mayor Eric Adams stood alongside Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch in Queens on Tuesday afternoon and charged that a lot of the crime alongside Roosevelt Avenue has been orchestrated by “illegal migrants” whom the NYPD and the feds have rooted out.
Adams used the controversial time period amidst ongoing ICE raids in New York and across the nation which have left many outraged due to the random and forceful nature federal brokers have taken folks, together with immigrants and residents with out felony information into custody.
“The participation of violent illegal migrants in our city, and one of them was the 18th Street gang, indicating there were violent transnational gang members, a racketeering conspiracy, narcotics and firearms trafficking, extortion, and assault,” Hizzoner stated through the June 24 press convention on the one hundred and fifteenth Precinct stationhouse in Jackson Heights.
The mayor additionally thanked the feds for working with the NYPD to take away a gang that, he stated, had beforehand made the Roosevelt Avenue hall unsafe.
“We zeroed in on them, and we were successful in taking them down with our federal partners, something that I talk about all the time. We’re going to collaborate with our federal partners when it deals with criminal encounters, and we’re using every tool possible,” he added.
Crime decreases on Roosevelt Avenue
The press convention gave Adams and Tisch a possibility to tout a double-digit lower in crime alongside Roosevelt Avenue throughout a months-long initiative applied late final yr known as “Operation Restore Roosevelt.”
Per NYPD stats, for the reason that starting of 2025, burglaries are down 48%, grand larcenies are down 29.4%, felony assaults are down 28.2%, and robberies are down 26.6%.
Cops shuttered an alleged brothel positioned simply off the busy strip nestled beside a residential district at 90-25 Roosevelt Avenue.Picture by Dean Moses
“So far this year, there have been zero shootings and no confirmed shots fired. This data is backed by action on the ground. Since the start of the operation, the NYPD has made more than 25 arrests along the corridor. We’ve issued more than 25,000 summonses and shut down dozens of illegal businesses operating in plain sight,” Tisch stated.
The NYPD additionally started cracking down on prostitution out of companies alongside Roosevelt Avenue final fall, prompting a number of protests pushing again towards the cleanup effort, arguing that cops primarily focused immigrants.
Adams additionally appeared to make sure the general public that town was providing intercourse staff assets in an effort to alleviate their dependence on promoting their our bodies.
In the meantime, Deputy Mayor of Public Security Kaz Daughtry stated that human trafficking was pushed to the facet streets the place folks paid for intercourse out of parked automobiles, however famous that this difficulty can be being addressed.
“We had residents contact us, they were telling us that there was illegal prostitution activity that was being done inside of abandoned vehicles that were parked on the side blocks. [We] got that information and immediately acted on it and towed those vehicles,” Daughtry stated.
