{"id":83285,"date":"2025-12-29T07:32:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T07:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/83285\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T07:32:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T07:32:06","slug":"the-adams-tisch-nypd-is-blowing-away-crime-records-challenging-mamdani-to-keep-it-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/83285\/","title":{"rendered":"The Adams-Tisch NYPD is blowing away crime records \u2014 challenging Mamdani to keep it up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NYPD under <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/17\/us-news\/nypd-touts-record-hiring-numbers-to-fill-ranks-for-new-yorks-finest-but-pba-says-too-many-still-leaving\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">boss Jessica Tisch<\/a> this year is blowing away record lows on shootings, and coming impressively close on murders. Kudos to her and the force.<\/p>\n<p>The big question now: Can <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/18\/opinion\/mamdanis-plan-to-sideline-cops-will-sabotage-crime-fighting-wins\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani <\/a>keep up the momentum, even with his anti-cop agenda?<\/p>\n<p>Start with homicides, which <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/03\/us-news\/nyc-shootings-plummet-to-all-time-low-as-does-subway-crime-for-october\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">plunged to just 297<\/a> through Dec. 21. Yes, that\u2019s 297 too many needless deaths, but it\u2019s 20% fewer than the 377 killings in 2024, and likely to beat out the number in 2019 (319), the year before cashless-bail kicked and murders started soaring.<\/p>\n<p>Need more? For the first 11 months of this year, the city actually broke the all-time low for shootings set in 2018, with 44 fewer incidents (652 vs. 696) and 16 fewer victims (812 vs. 828).<\/p>\n<p>And get this: \u201cNYC has recorded 1,000 FEWER shooting victims than in 2021,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NYPDPC\/status\/2003824261715165391?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">tweeted Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch<\/a> on Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the best Christmas gift the city could get.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPost Editorial Board<\/p>\n<p>True, other <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/24\/us-news\/murders-in-us-are-down-nearly-20-likely-the-largest-single-year-drop-ever\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cities are also seeing <\/a>big drops in their murder rates: Chicago, which has had appallingly high numbers of murders, saw a 28% drop; Washington, DC, where President Donald Trump deployed troops, nearly 28%.<\/p>\n<p>But in Gotham, after a mixed few years, Mayor Eric Adams can take credit for keeping his 2021 campaign vow to roll back violent crime.<\/p>\n<p>Misguided criminal-justice reforms, plus soft-on-crime judges and prosecutors gave criminals free rein to wreak havoc, and major felonies are still on pace this year to come in 25% higher than in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Toothpaste remains locked behind display cases.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGet opinions and commentary from our columnists\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter!\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>But Adams and Tisch focused resources on violent recidivists, high-crime areas, gangs and illegal guns, and it\u2019s made a difference.<\/p>\n<p>During one remarkable stretch in the fall, the Big Apple went 12 consecutive days without a homicide.<\/p>\n<p>Now the challenge will be for Team Mamdani to keep it up, even as he looks to defund cops and take other measures that could fuel a crime resurgence.<\/p>\n<p>The ball will be in your hands now, Zoh. Don\u2019t fumble it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NYPD under boss Jessica Tisch this year is blowing away record lows on shootings, and coming impressively&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[303,304,81,5302,238,9,56,63,65,64,103,299,3980,2917,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-83285","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-crime","9":"tag-editorial","10":"tag-eric-adams","11":"tag-jessica-tisch","12":"tag-murders","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-nyc-headlines","17":"tag-nyc-news","18":"tag-nypd","19":"tag-opinion","20":"tag-shootings","21":"tag-victims","22":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}