Mayor Eric Adams at an April 1, 2025 press convention at Metropolis Corridor.
Photograph by Lloyd Mitchell
Our North Star has at all times been preserving New York Metropolis streets, subways, and communities secure. This can be a pro-public security administration, and we all know that to ensure that New York Metropolis to be the most effective place to lift a household, our neighborhoods must be secure.
Since day one, our administration has been devoted to creating positive New Yorkers are safer and really feel safer. We have now put 1000’s of extra cops on the beat, taken over 21,000 unlawful weapons out of the fingers of criminals and off our streets, and made our subways safer whereas getting susceptible New Yorkers the assistance they want. The numbers are in, and the primary quarter crime information for this 12 months reveals our public security technique continues to work. We have now now had 5 straight quarters of reducing crime — since January 1, 2024 — and we’re shattering crime document after crime document.
The primary three months of the 12 months noticed the bottom variety of shootings in recorded historical past. For the reason that begin of contemporary crime monitoring, there has by no means been this few capturing incidents in ANY quarter in ANY 12 months in our metropolis’s recorded historical past. New York Metropolis additionally noticed the second fewest variety of murders in recorded historical past. Theft and grand larceny are of their sixth consecutive month of decline, and robberies proceed their double-digit dip.
Transit crime has additionally gone down by double digits within the first quarter — for all boroughs which have subway service. That is because of the surge of police in our transit system the place we’d like them most, on our trains and platforms.
We have now listened to New Yorkers and labored to make our metropolis safer. The success of our public security technique is because of an intensified focus of cops assigned to scorching spot “zones” throughout the 5 boroughs.
Our data-driven, precision policing mannequin has already led to the elimination of over 1,300 unlawful firearms in 2025, together with 57 untraceable 3-D printed “ghost guns,” and brings the overall to over 21,000 unlawful firearms taken off the streets because the starting of our administration.
These gun seizures immediately influenced an virtually 29 p.c drop in capturing victims in March and a 23.4 p.c lower in capturing victims for the quarter. That’s 50 much less capturing victims to date this 12 months alone, which suggests extra lives are being saved.
And we’re beginning to see some promising statistics once we have a look at retail theft — which is down over 8 p.c 12 months so far. Retail theft hurts our companies, our employees, our prospects, and our high quality of life. New Yorkers don’t really feel like issues are working when all the pieces from toothpaste to laundry detergent is locked up. We have now been clear: we is not going to let shoplifters and arranged crime rings prey on New York Metropolis companies.
Moreover, because of steps we’ve got taken, site visitors deaths have reached a historic low within the first quarter of 2025. Over the past three years, our administration has created a document 1.5 million sq. toes of latest pedestrian house throughout the 5 boroughs; improved over 5,700 intersections, which has led to raised visibility and drivers turning extra slowly; put in 87.5 miles of protected bike lanes; and, as a result of rushing is a consider over 1 / 4 of site visitors deaths, we labored with lawmakers in Albany to maintain our velocity cameras operational 24 hours a day, seven days per week. We’re additionally working with Albany to develop the usage of cameras at pink lights to discourage drivers from working pink lights as a substitute of coming to a cease.
These measures additionally resulted in decreased site visitors accidents this quarter and present ahead progress towards our Imaginative and prescient Zero targets. We’ve seen declines in accidents throughout the board, with drops in accidents amongst pedestrians, cyclists, motorized two-wheeler riders, and motorcar occupants. Regardless of this progress, we all know tragic site visitors fatalities — just like the latest crash that took the lives of three people, together with two kids, and left one baby preventing for his life in hospital — nonetheless happen and we should proceed to alter driving behaviors.
We is not going to relaxation till all New Yorkers are secure: at dwelling, on our transit system, and on our streets. Due to our steadfast give attention to public security, and the arduous work of the courageous women and men of the NYPD, New York Metropolis stays the most secure huge metropolis in America, and we are going to proceed to work tirelessly each day to maintain defending New Yorkers, their households, and our neighborhoods.
