NYPD Assistant Chief Christopher McIntosh, the new commanding officer of Patrol Borough Queens South, told Community Board 9 on Tuesday that major crime in the command has continued to fall.
“Last year, we were down in six of the eight major crimes,” McIntosh told the group at Borough Hall. Only grand larceny and rape were up, he noted.
McIntosh added, “You go back 20 years, we’ve never been so low in homicides.”
He said that shootings and shooting victims have seen “tremendous reduction,” especially in the 102nd and 106th precincts.
In 2026 so far, crime in Queens South is down nearly nine percent across the nine precincts, McIntosh said, with increases in only the 101st and 103rd precincts.
He also took a moment to praise Capt. Pratima Maldonado, the commanding officer of the 102nd Precinct.
“She’s doing tremendously,” he said.
Albert Gamarra, the board’s Public Safety Committee chair, asked McIntosh if there is a possibility of keeping “as many [cops] as we can” during the summer months, as the area often sees an uptick in crime during that time. In summer, many officers are relocated to patrol the beach.
McIntosh said deployment is driven by statistics.
“If our crime increases, we will get additional resources,” he said. “We do what we call a mobile force field, and that will be deployed if we see an issue.”
Board Chair Sherry Algredo told McIntosh she hopes for more cops to address fireworks during the Fourth of July.
“Everybody’s working,” he told Algredo of the holiday. “We give a lot of resources. We have a dedicated 311 car. … Can we catch everybody? Probably not, but there is a large footprint on the Fourth of July.”