NEW YORK CITY, NY - In an exclusive report from the New York Post, first quarter statistics show a dramatic decrease in murders and shootings now that the New York Police Department (NYPD) is under Commissioner Jessica Tisch's "no-nonsense" leadership.
Tisch took over the department at the end of 2024 and immediately cleaned house of allegedly corrupt top officials as she introduced new policies to improve New Yorkers' quality of life and cut down on repeat offenders. The finalized crime statistics from the first quarter of 2025 reflect her efforts.
According to the data, murders dropped to 63, compared to 96 in the first quarter of 2024 — a whopping 35 percent decrease. The data also shows that there have been 140 shootings, with 164 victims so far this year — a 23 percent dip from the 182 shootings and 314 shooting victims recorded in the same period of 2024.
If this continues, New Yorkers could see the lowest number of murders and shootings on record in nearly a decade — since 2017, when there were 267 murders and 2018, when there were 754 shootings. One Manhattan detective said, "Tisch is running this like a business, and the bottom line is crime reduction."
The new data comes just after shootings in New York City fell to a 30-year low at the end of February. Tisch hit the ground running back in November 2024 when she took over the country's largest police department. She immediately beefed up neglected programs and began tracking if police responded to New Yorkers' 311 complaints as part of her "quality of life" crackdown.
The new approach, complete with its own "Quality of Life" division, targets aggressive panhandlers, open-air drug use, and homelessness. It also introduced specialized teams that Tisch said would have officers following "strong, centralized leadership" rather than the various units throughout departments.
She also altered the police academy requirements in order to expand the force. She vowed to reinstate the required timed 1.5-mile run and sliced the minimum college creds needed from 60 to just 24. In early January she wrote an op-ed for The Post, discussing how she prioritized addressing the climbing recidivism rates, which she said she believes has kept New Yorkers from feeling safe despite the improvements being made to the NYPD.
She wrote, "Imagine how disheartening it is for our cops to arrest the same people, for the same crime, in the same neighborhoods, over and over. And how scary it is for New Yorkers to see the same person who victimized them one day, walking the streets the next."
She added, "The time for band-aids and half measures is over because the revolving door of the criminal justice system fails to put the rights and needs of victims first. New Yorkers demand, and they certainly deserve, better."
Tisch took over the department at the end of 2024 and immediately cleaned house of allegedly corrupt top officials as she introduced new policies to improve New Yorkers' quality of life and cut down on repeat offenders. The finalized crime statistics from the first quarter of 2025 reflect her efforts.
According to the data, murders dropped to 63, compared to 96 in the first quarter of 2024 — a whopping 35 percent decrease. The data also shows that there have been 140 shootings, with 164 victims so far this year — a 23 percent dip from the 182 shootings and 314 shooting victims recorded in the same period of 2024.
If this continues, New Yorkers could see the lowest number of murders and shootings on record in nearly a decade — since 2017, when there were 267 murders and 2018, when there were 754 shootings. One Manhattan detective said, "Tisch is running this like a business, and the bottom line is crime reduction."
The new data comes just after shootings in New York City fell to a 30-year low at the end of February. Tisch hit the ground running back in November 2024 when she took over the country's largest police department. She immediately beefed up neglected programs and began tracking if police responded to New Yorkers' 311 complaints as part of her "quality of life" crackdown.
The new approach, complete with its own "Quality of Life" division, targets aggressive panhandlers, open-air drug use, and homelessness. It also introduced specialized teams that Tisch said would have officers following "strong, centralized leadership" rather than the various units throughout departments.
She also altered the police academy requirements in order to expand the force. She vowed to reinstate the required timed 1.5-mile run and sliced the minimum college creds needed from 60 to just 24. In early January she wrote an op-ed for The Post, discussing how she prioritized addressing the climbing recidivism rates, which she said she believes has kept New Yorkers from feeling safe despite the improvements being made to the NYPD.
She wrote, "Imagine how disheartening it is for our cops to arrest the same people, for the same crime, in the same neighborhoods, over and over. And how scary it is for New Yorkers to see the same person who victimized them one day, walking the streets the next."
She added, "The time for band-aids and half measures is over because the revolving door of the criminal justice system fails to put the rights and needs of victims first. New Yorkers demand, and they certainly deserve, better."
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2025-04-07T23:27-0400 | Comment by: Suzanne
The biggest issue is recidivism and the bail reform law. If you want to release non violent offenders, fine. The violent ones get bail. Hefty bail.
2025-04-07T23:28-0400 | Comment by: Suzanne
The biggest issue is recidivism and the bail reform law. If you want to release non violent offenders, fine. The violent ones get bail. Hefty bail.
2025-04-07T23:34-0400 | Comment by: Suzanne
The biggest issue is recidivism and the bail reform law. If you want to release non violent offenders, fine. The violent ones get bail. Hefty bail.