NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch faces Metropolis Council over NYC’s crime fee which is trending up within the Bronx
LOWER MANHATTAN, New York (WABC) — NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch confronted powerful questions from Metropolis Council over the crime fee within the nation’s largest metropolis – which is trending down general, however is up in a single borough, particularly crimes involving weapons.
Tisch got here to Metropolis Corridor on Wednesday, armed with statistics to again up her declare that general crime in New York has by no means been decrease.
“We didn’t simply break data. We shattered them,” she stated.
Her testimony earlier than the Metropolis Council’s Public Security Committee was a passionate portrayal of a well-oiled, data-driven legislation enforcement machine.
“2025 was a yr of historic achievements by the NYPD throughout our precincts, our transit districts and housing developments,” Tisch stated. “We set excessive expectations after which we exceeded them.”
However the commissioner discovered herself on the defensive, when questioned by committee chair Oswald Feliz in regards to the current enhance in shootings in his district within the Bronx.
“Shootings are down citywide. Within the Bronx, they’re up 35 factors,” Feliz stated. “So, it is protected to say that the progress associated to shootings hasn’t reached the Bronx.”
Tisch responded, highlighting statistics on shootings within the Bronx.
“Final yr there have been 100 fewer individuals shot within the borough of the Bronx than the earlier yr,” Tisch stated.
Nonetheless, Feliz stated that regardless of the progress, it looks as if it is going backwards.
“The numbers associated to taking pictures victims and taking pictures incidents and homicide are going up this yr in comparison with final yr,” he stated.
Tisch once more responded, saying, “What we can not ignore is a record-breaking story, and I can’t have the work of the members of the New York Metropolis Police Division mischaracterized.”
NYPD commanders are including 200 officers to the Bronx, which shall be break up into two patrol bureaus.
“We perceive the small uptick in gun violence. And there is, you understand, the New York Metropolis Police Division is entrance and heart to scale back violence,” stated NYPD Chief of Division Chief Michael LiPetri.
“Are we up barely on it? Sure. However we’re working the identical playbook, doing the identical issues,” Tisch stated. “And on high of that, creating a brand new patrol borough. And I’ve each confidence that we’re being-acting responsibly.”
The commissioner is assured that the division’s methods will repay within the Bronx, the place nearly all of shootings are pushed by a small variety of violent avenue gangs.
To datein 2026, theBronxis main the town in general crime declines, and has the biggest reductionof any patrol borough – greater than 10% downin the seven main indexcrimes. That features the next:
– Theft is down 10.3%
– Felony Assault is down 3.9%
– Housebreaking is down 19.8%
– Grand Larceny is down 12.5%
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