Mayor Eric Adams, NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, and NYPD Chief of Crime Management Methods Michael LiPetri transient the media relating to the crime statistics for September 2025 and the third quarter.
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The Adams administration’s North Star has all the time been public security. New Yorkers need to have the ability to ship their youngsters to high school, go to work, store of their native retailer, exit for dinner, and are available residence safely to their household and their neighborhood. They need to really feel protected AND they need to be protected, and this administration has delivered that for them. Final week, we launched the 2025 third quarter crime information for New York Metropolis, which exhibits that our public security system is working.
From day one, we set to work sweeping out crime and unlawful actions from our neighborhoods. Due to this work, we’ve got completed our seventh consecutive quarter of crime discount. Which means for nearly two straight years — since January 2024 — crime has persistently declined every quarter in New York Metropolis.
This new information exhibits that main crime for the third quarter was down 3.1 p.c — equating to 1,048 fewer victims of main crime. That’s greater than 1,000 New Yorkers who didn’t fall sufferer to crime as a result of we stayed centered on constructing a safer metropolis. Extra particularly, six of the seven main crimes have been additionally down for this quarter, together with declines in homicides, robberies, felony assaults, burglaries, grand larcenies, and auto theft.
Our subways and public housing developments are additionally getting safer, with main crime down for the third quarter this yr. Retaining New Yorkers protected is our primary dedication on this metropolis, particularly on the subway, which thousands and thousands of riders depend on daily. And we proceed to set information in our transit system — we had the most secure summer season in recorded historical past in our subways whenever you exclude the pandemic years, and we’re going to proceed to ensure New Yorkers can journey the prepare safely, day or night time.
Moreover, capturing incidents have been, as soon as once more, at document lows for the primary 9 months of the yr, for the third quarter, and for the month of September. Capturing incidents have been down almost 30 p.c for September, almost 16 p.c for the third quarter of 2025, and for the primary 9 months of the yr, capturing victims have been additionally at document lows — tying the earlier document set in 2018. And when in comparison with the identical interval instantly earlier than we got here into workplace, shootings are down a staggering 54 p.c.
Capturing victims have been additionally down 32.5 p.c for September and over 11 p.c for the third quarter. These are the dividends paid from the greater than 4,100 unlawful weapons taken off the road this yr alone, and the virtually 24,000 weapons eliminated because the begin of our administration. That’s 24,000 weapons that not threaten the protection of our neighborhoods, our households, or our youngsters.
Extra particularly, for September, main crime was down almost 3 p.c, which was pushed by a lower in six of the seven main crime classes, that features double-digit share declines in murder, rape, and auto theft, in addition to declines in theft, felony assault, and housebreaking.
Our small companies and retail shops are additionally getting safer, with retail theft declining for the month, quarter, and year-to-date. Hate crimes additionally continued their decline as properly.
All of those reductions in crime aren’t any accident. They’re the product of our administration’s precedence to tackle crime and quality-of life points. Even with the large steps we’ve taken in making our metropolis safer, we all know that even one crime continues to be one too many.
And whereas these numbers present actual progress, we won’t relaxation till all New Yorkers are protected — at residence, in our subways, and on our sidewalks. This administration won’t ever tolerate a sense of something goes on our streets or in our neighborhoods. Due to our steadfast give attention to public security, the deep bench of leaders we’ve put in place at police headquarters, and the arduous work of the courageous women and men of the NYPD, New York Metropolis stays the most secure large metropolis in America, the very best place to lift a household, and a spot the place you already know that your metropolis is searching for you. Those that come after should be sure that we don’t go backwards and, as an alternative, proceed the progress we’ve got made to make our metropolis and streets safer. This metropolis’s in good condition. Let’s maintain it that method.
