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Eric Adams: “In our 2025 first quarter crime data reflects our resounding…”

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New York City Press Conference on Illegal Vape Shops and Youth Health Initiatives

Published April 7, 2025 | Video Starts at 10:23

And we know that because today's lawsuit and the shuttering of illegal smoke shops go hand in hand with our efforts to bring down crime in our city. In our 2025 first quarter crime data reflects our resounding success. Our first quarter of 2025 shows the lowest number of shootings in the recorded history of our city. We're talking about the start of crime stat data. (10:23–10:30)

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“Since last May, we have shut down over 1300 illegal shops, seized over $94 million in illegal products.”
New York City Press Conference on Illegal Vape Shops and Youth Health Initiatives | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 07:16-07:31
“Our first quarter of 2025 shows the lowest number of shootings in the recorded history of our city.”
New York City Press Conference on Illegal Vape Shops and Youth Health Initiatives | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 10:29-10:39
“We're seeing the second lowest number of homicides, murders in recorded history.”
New York City Press Conference on Illegal Vape Shops and Youth Health Initiatives | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 10:54-11:01
“Once we got the authority to close these illegal smoke shops, we had to correct the problem that the previous governor put in place.”
New York City Press Conference on Illegal Vape Shops and Youth Health Initiatives | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 03:11-03:24
“The law has so many loopholes and we find us constantly have to fix what impacts our city.”
New York City Press Conference on Illegal Vape Shops and Youth Health Initiatives | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 03:25-03:33
“Today we're announcing that the New York City law department under the corporation Council is going to be filing a federal lawsuit against…”
New York City Press Conference on Illegal Vape Shops and Youth Health Initiatives | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 04:30-04:47
“Nicotine addiction among middle and high school youth is exploding.”
New York City Press Conference on Illegal Vape Shops and Youth Health Initiatives | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 04:56-05:05
“We have already banned flavored e-cigarettes in the city.”
New York City Press Conference on Illegal Vape Shops and Youth Health Initiatives | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 06:43-06:47
“The businesses we sealed were given one year to stay sealed by law.”
New York City Press Conference on Illegal Vape Shops and Youth Health Initiatives | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 08:25-08:32
“Crime has now been down for five quarters quarters of three months.”
New York City Press Conference on Illegal Vape Shops and Youth Health Initiatives | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 11:11-11:16
“The most important part of the conference we're having today is not what government is doing, but is the movement of young people.”
New York City Press Conference on Illegal Vape Shops and Youth Health Initiatives | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 19:15-19:25
“Change is based on the movement of young people. They blow the winds of change, not adults.”
New York City Press Conference on Illegal Vape Shops and Youth Health Initiatives | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 19:24-19:30
“If we dry up the demand, we would dry up the need to even do the governmental and the legal aspect of it.”
New York City Press Conference on Illegal Vape Shops and Youth Health Initiatives | Uploaded April 7, 2025 | 19:40-19:49