Outgoing Mayor Eric Adams regarded to take one final victory lap Monday earlier than handing the reins of the town over to incoming Mayor Zohran Mamdani by asserting the elimination of 25,000 unlawful weapons from the streets since he took workplace in 2022.
Picture by Dean Moses
Outgoing Mayor Eric Adams regarded to take one final victory lap Monday earlier than handing the reins of the town over to incoming Mayor Zohran Mamdani by asserting the elimination of 25,000 unlawful weapons from the streets since he took workplace in 2022.
Adams stood inside Metropolis Corridor beside Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch and a set of confiscated firearms that included all the things from handguns to shotguns. Hizzoner wasted little time patting himself on the again for what he cited as a significant milestone in public security.
“I’m the only mayor that understood law enforcement, I’m the only one,” Adams boasted.
Outgoing Mayor Eric Adams regarded to take one final victory lap Monday earlier than handing the reins of the town over to Zohran Mamdani by asserting the elimination of 25,000 unlawful weapons from the streets.Picture by Dean Moses
In keeping with Adams, the 25,000 weapons — 16,00 of which have been ghost weapons — eliminated since his 4 years in workplace and, to him, symbolize lives saved from gun violence. He additionally states that about 5,200 firearms have been confiscated since January of this yr.
“Let that sink in for a moment… 25,000 illegal guns, not able to feed the river of violence, we were able to dam that river with our actions in a world where just one gun can tear an entire community apart, we prevented 25,000 of those actions, keeping families whole,” Adams mentioned.
Outgoing Mayor Eric Adams regarded to take one final victory lap Monday earlier than handing the reins of the town over to Zohran Mamdani by asserting the elimination of 25,000 unlawful weapons from the streets.Picture by Dean Moses 
Outgoing Mayor Eric Adams regarded to take one final victory lap Monday earlier than handing the reins of the town over to Zohran Mamdani by asserting the elimination of 25,000 unlawful weapons from the streets.Picture by Dean Moses
In keeping with Adams and Tisch, the gun removals helped vastly to scale back crime to what they cite as record-breaking ranges. Over the past 4 years, the pair says shootings are down by 55% whereas homicides fell by 35.5%. Since final yr, Tisch revealed that the town has seen 239 fewer individuals shot and 1016 fewer than in 2023.
Furthermore, the commissioner mentioned, the primary 11 months of 2025 have additionally seen each the bottom variety of capturing incidents and capturing victims ever recorded in an 11-month span, beating the earlier recorded low set in 2018 by 44 incidents.
“The expectation was clear: get the guns, and now, four years later, that focus has produced some real results, more than 25,000 guns seized by the New York City Police Department. That amounts to more than a dozen illegal firearms taken off of our streets every single day for 1,459 days. This is no accident; it is thanks to a focus strategy, to data-driven deployment, and to relentless police work carried out across the city, and the impact of that work is showing up in our crime numbers, with record-breaking results,” Tisch said. “Their work is reflected in the milestones that we are making today, in historic reductions in crime and violence that we are seeing across the city.”
Adams stood inside Metropolis Corridor beside Police Commissioner Jessica and a set of confiscated firearms that included all the things from handguns to shotguns.Picture by Dean Moses
Adams additionally celebrated numerous violence interrupter teams from throughout the 5 boroughs, which he championed as instrumental in stopping retaliatory shootings, even going so far as to current them with keys to the town for his or her work.
With mere days left in his administration, when Adams was requested if he had any recommendation for incoming Mayor Mamdani relating to tackling crime and gun violence, he had this to say.
“If I could give a piece of advice, listen to Commissioner Tisch. I’m the only mayor who understands law enforcement. There was never a man in history who knew what needed to be done — I’m the only one. As much as I knew, I still listen to Jessica Tisch,” Adams mentioned.
