Mayor Eric Adams, flanked by members of his team at City Hall on Wednesday, defended his administration’s work on public safety since taking office in January.
“We have much to do,” Adams said at a press conference at the City Hall rotunda. “There are difficult roads ahead to make sure all New Yorkers are safe, but I’m proud of what we have done.”
The mayor cited a number of crime-related statistics as he pointed to areas of improvement — including a 17% drop in shootings and a 12% drop in homicides in 2022 — and he stood by his oft-criticized plan to remove certain individuals from city streets. The mayor touched on several additional areas of policing, as well, as he vowed to step up work on issues such as traffic enforcement and hate crimes in the new year.
