Mayor Eric Adams didn’t wait for Christmas to celebrate, highlighting the city’s public safety wins throughout 2022 last Thursday during a City Hall press conference.
He named gun violence reductions, subway police rollouts and increased fire safety as a few key issues his administration addressed over the first year in office.
Shootings are down from last year by roughly 17%, which Adams credits to the 6,985 guns seized by police in 2022. Gun arrests are at a 27-year high. And there are 302 fewer shooting victims this year. Adams also highlighted the controversial Neighborhood Safety Teams, which employ unmarked vehicles and plain clothes units to address illegal gun possession and other “violent major crimes.
Additionally, crackdown on illegal license plates were mentioned as a crime deterrent as Adams attributed their use to “feeding the sea of violence.” But the city won’t outsource help—Brooklyn safe-streets advocate Adam White was arrested and detained last month for removing plastic used to illegally obstruct a license plate.
And while murder is down, year-to-date from Dec. 18, major index crime is up by 23.5%, including increases in every other category. There were 10,000 more grand larcenies this year compared to 2021, a 27.8% rise.
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