Because the clock runs down on Eric Adams’ mayoralty, the town has contemporary proof that Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch is popping issues round on the NYPD.
After years of shrinkage, the division’s on the verge of hiring new officers quicker than outdated ones go away — and is gaining on crime, too.
Public security nonetheless isn’t again to 2019 ranges, earlier than the pandemic and the state’s worst criminal-justice “reforms,” however key measures are optimistic.
The NYPD simply posted unbelievable October stats: Citywide shootings plummeted to an all-time low for the month and for year-to-date; subway crime, too.
“We aren’t simply beating the report, we’re crushing it,’’ Tisch advised new-minted officers on the newest swearing-in ceremony.
NYPD knowledge confirmed 744 folks shot in 596 incidents within the 5 boroughs between January and October — eclipsing the earlier mark set in 2018 which noticed 641 incidents and 768 shot.
Up to now, this 12 months’s 18 murders have tied a 2018 all-time report — simply over half the 35 in the identical interval final 12 months.
Transit crime tied the earlier report low — 154 felony offenses — for October, set in 2020 when ridership was near-zero.
The 12 months’s thus far had only one homicide underground — the mindless beating demise of Italian immigrant Nicola Tanzi in October; pray we’re near the outdated days of no subway murders in any respect most years.
In the meantime, Tisch on Monday swore in practically 650 new cops, the fourth class of the 12 months, placing the NYPD on monitor for what she known as the “highest hiring” in over 4 a long time; the practically 1,000 cadets who joined the power in August had been the biggest graduating class since 2016.
One cautionary observe: The Police Benevolent Affiliation reviews that 1,642 cops have resigned or filed for retirement since April; the prospect of a Mamdani mayoralty isn’t constructing religion sooner or later.
Certainly, whereas Adams’ new hiring plan would enhance the NYPD’s headcount from its present just-below 34,000 to 40,000 by 2029, that’ll be all too straightforward for the following mayor to desert.
We discover it near-inconceivable that Mamdani may make it potential for Tisch to honorably keep on as commissioner; we’d be overjoyed if he proved us fallacious — despite the fact that it’s the neatest potential transfer he may make if desires to win a second time period.
Adams and Tisch have proved that the NYPD can get the town again to its accustomed security ranges.
New Yorkers will preserve that in thoughts as a brand new crew takes over at Metropolis Corridor.
