NYPD under Tisch STILL bringing crime down — – Latest News
In February as in January, the NYPD continued to scale back crime to report lows — besides the place City Hall waved cops off.
In different phrases, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch can keep doing her job except Mayor Zohran Mamdani will get in her method.
Crime within the subway spiked practically 20% after the mayor ordered police and different metropolis staff to not power the homeless (or anybody else) out of the subway system during the February snow and below-freezing temps.
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As a end result, the month confirmed a 61% drop in ejections from January’s degree — and a soar in offenses to more than 190.
Otherwise, the NYPD’s ranks are doing great by Feb. 28, with record-low capturing incidents, capturing victims and murders.
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Murders fell 33.3% (16 vs. 24 in January-February 2025).
Shooting incidents dropped 45.5%
Shooting victims declined 36.4%, and robberies by 33%.
February noticed retail theft fall 24.7% over the identical month a 12 months in the past; crime in public housing, 14.7%.
In the wake of Tisch’s efficient use of “precision policing” that made 2025 the most secure 12 months ever within the Big Apple, with historic reductions in main crime and gun violence; 2026 may be higher nonetheless.
Yet Mamdani is already risking these positive factors by leaving NYPD spending flat and rolling back hiring plans.
If he interferes more with Tisch, the subway crime blip tells you the place town can be headed.
