Imagine how good the new NYPD numbers could be if – Latest News
Guess what? Turns out once you combat crime as an alternative of enabling it, crime goes down.
Witness the latest, extraordinarily heartening numbers from the NYPD beneath Comissioner Jessica Tisch.
Murders in the first quarter of 2025 are down 35% in comparison with Q1 in 2024, from 96 to 63.
Shootings (from 182 to 140) and taking pictures victims (from 214 to 164) are each down big-time over the similar period, about a 23% drop for each.
We are back on observe, in different phrases, to hit the historic lows the metropolis noticed in 2017 and 2018 for these classes of crimes — the consequence of years spent policing tougher and smarter.
A hit that the left then used to rationalize its monstrous prison justice “reforms,” together with the no-bail law that lets even repeat perps keep strolling and the discovery adjustments that spring even hardened thugs on meaningless technicalities.
These outcomes are, of course, straight attributable to Tisch’s management: fixing departmental dysfunction, beefing up police presence and ruthlessly specializing in quality-of-life points that breed additional dysfunction when unaddressed.
If Tisch has achieved this in the face of opposition from the left, think about what she could do if she have been unfettered.
How many shootings, for instance, could be prevented by reversing the state’s absurd Raise the Age law, which has enabled late-teen gangbangers to fire at will?
How a lot more crime could be pared if cops weren’t hampered by the metropolis’s idiotic “How Many Stops Act,” a law meant to discourage the police from doing their jobs with Kafkaesque paperwork necessities?
And how many thugs and killers could be stored off the streets if our insane bail legal guidelines have been modified to truly promote public security as an alternative of eroding it?
New Yorkers need protected streets. It’s the political will of leftists on the City Council and in Albany that thwarts their want — the similar leftists whom Mayor Eric Adams lately slammed as “lawmakers who don’t believe we have a recidivism problem.”
Commissioner Tisch, nevertheless, is listening loud and clear.
