Eric Adams touts historic decline in New York City murder rate

Eric Adams touts historic decline in New York City murder rate


New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced Sunday that crime in the Big Apple has reached historic lows. 

From the start of the year through May 31, the city saw the lowest number of shootings and homicides in recorded history, according to the mayor’s office. Adams has also removed over 22,000 “illegal guns” since assuming office in 2022, according to a press release.

There were 264 recorded shootings and 112 recorded homicides. Those numbers narrowly broke previous records of 267 shootings in 2018 and 113 homicides in 2014 and 2017 in the same period.

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“When I took the oath of office as mayor, I made a promise that we would make this city safer and that we would drive down crime,” Adams, who is engaged in

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