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Eric Adams: “Transit crime went down by 18% as well.”

Featuring: Eric Adams, Democratic | Mayor of New York

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New York City Mayor's Press Conference on Crime Reduction, Migrant Crisis, and Economic Initiatives

Published | Video Starts at 03:06

And you're seeing the results of just a smart strategic initiatives that ignored all the noise. Now look at the numbers. This quarter, we reduced murders by 34% in shootings, 34% in murders, 23% in shootings. And Transit crime went down by 18% as well. And we see promising stats. When you look at retail theft, there was a real issue around retail theft. We came together and put together A retail theft task force and the numbers are showing 8% decrease year to date. (03:06–03:11)

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