The NYPD’s summer safety initiative appears to be yielding positive results. Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch and Mayor Eric Adams touted a historic drop in crime while ...

The number of kids under the age of 18 busted with a gun increased by a whopping 136% between 2018 and 2024, the top cop said ...

Former NYPD detective Dr. Oscar Odom on the uptick in antisemitic violence driving the NYPD to increase presence at religious ...

The two "community intervention specialists" — unarmed community members who have experience with at-risk populations and ...

Time and place can make a big difference in whether a subway rider encounters violence in New York City’s transit system ... Reeping added that a sizable increase in physical attacks on police ...

Crime in New York City's transit system ... ordered more officers to patrol the subway trains and platforms following the "terrifying acts of random violence." Overall, major crime -- including ...

but riders have reservations after a spate of violence underground. At the start of congestion pricing, crime on the New York City subways is down 5.4% from a year ago, though "people don't feel ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to expand the state’s involuntary commitment laws to allow hospitals to compel more mentally ill people into treatment, following a series of violent crimes in ...

On a New York City subway car in the early ... a record and an 18% increase from the prior year. What those numbers do not tell us is the way that violence shapes homeless people’s lives.

The Times, meaning New York’s liberal establishment, is exasperated as “subway violence stubbornly defies all efforts ... It points to the “substantial increase in major categories” of crime “since ...

“We have a duty to protect the public from random acts of violence, and the only fair ... after a series of violent encounters in New York City’s subways, many of which have attracted national ...