Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani: Good morning, everyone. It is a pleasure to start the day here in Mott Haven. Before I begin, I want to acknowledge my partner in government, Governor Kathy Hochul. We have our New York Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch. We have our Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson, Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark, our City Council Member Amanda Farías, our Assistant Chief Benjamin Gurley of the NYPD Bronx Patrol North, our Assistant Chief Brian Hennessy of NYPD Bronx Patrol South. I want to thank every single one of you for all that you do for our city and for all that you do for the people who call this city their home. The sun is out, the sky is blue, Memorial Day weekend is around the corner. Summer may not be all the way here, but it is close. For so many New Yorkers, especially young New Yorkers, this is one of the most exciting times of the year.
And yet, for many parents, educators, members of law enforcement and others across our city, the prospect of summer also carries with it the heightened risk of violence, pain, and loss. Make no mistake, across New York City, crime is down. The NYPD has taken more than 1,840 guns off of our streets since January 1 alone. We've reported record lows for murders, shootings and robberies. And yet, while our city is safer than ever, we know that once temperatures rise, so too do rates of violence. And we know Memorial Day weekend has historically seen crime spikes year after year. But just because the statistics tell a story, just because the data predicts what will happen next, doesn't mean we have to surrender ourselves to it. Violence does not have to be inevitable. New Yorkers do not have to be afraid to go outside, to walk the streets, to enjoy the warmth.
So, this morning I want to do two things. I want to first speak directly to both young New Yorkers and I want to share with this city what we are doing to keep people safe. First, to young New Yorkers, we are pursuing a whole-of-government approach to engage you through a variety of programs and to make summer one that is both fun and of growth possible. There are opportunities available to join basketball leagues, to participate in Saturday Night Light sports programs, to find dance and music and arts programs, to participate in youth leadership groups. The list goes on, and for young people eager to make a little extra money or kickstart their careers, the city is also here to help. Whether it's through SYEP, community-based work placements, internships or other opportunities, there are countless ways for this summer to also be one that's deeply productive.
I also want to encourage community members to take an active role in looking out for those they care about as the weather warms up. Many young New Yorkers just need someone to talk to, someone who notices that they're struggling and can offer them the piece of advice they need to hear, guiding them a way out of it. The city will also do our part to lower crime and continue to increase safety. We are implementing two measures to do just that. First, for the first time in our city's history, we are dividing the Bronx into two patrol boroughs: Bronx North and Bronx South. By splitting the Bronx into two patrol boroughs, we will bring nearly 200 additional officers to the borough and expand the specialized units available to respond to Bronxites' needs. This is about providing the Bronx with the same standards that Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan already have, and about bringing a real commitment to lowering crime in this borough. We've already made tremendous progress here in the Bronx in terms of bringing down crime. No borough saw a larger decline in major crime for the month of April, down more than 15 percent last month and 11 percent since the start of the year.
This year, auto theft is down, shootings are down, murders are down. We will build on that progress not by surrendering our momentum, but by pursuing the proven solutions that we know to work. Second, we are increasing uniformed officer presence in some of the highest crime parts of the city at some of the highest crime parts of the day. More than 2,600 uniformed officers will walk the beat in 72 zones across the five boroughs at night and in the early morning - times when we know violence tends to spike. This is a comprehensive, across-the-board strategy to continue building on the success our city has achieved in lowering crime over the past five and a half months. It is my sincere hope that in a few months, once temperatures begin to cool down once again, once students are back in school, we will measure our success, not through statistics, but in classrooms and dinner tables without empty seats, in SYEP programs and summer sports leagues that never felt more full, in a summer that was hot, that was fun, and that was safe. Thank you. And now it's my pleasure to invite our governor, Kathy Hochul, to share a few words.
Governor Kathy Hochul: Thank you, mayor. You know, in order to keep this city safe, it is absolutely incumbent upon its leaders to be real partners in fighting crime. And I thank the mayor and his extraordinary police commissioner, Jessica Tisch, for all of us working together toward one objective, is to making this the safest summer that we've ever seen. And I'm really proud of your announcements, mayor, that make common sense improvements and changes - [I'm] here to tell you how much I appreciate that. But also, it's an opportunity for me to come out and tell the men and women of NYPD how grateful I am for them every single day for showing up on the job, putting their lives on the line. And here, you heard it, the largest decline in crime was in one borough. The largest was in this borough, right here in the Bronx. And I'm really, really excited to know that because I'm reminded of a time when I came here just a few years ago when there was a huge surge in crime across the state, across the nation in fact. But the Bronx seemed to be hardest hit.
And I remember walking with some leaders in a business district, a business improvement district, and stopping into a little bakery. And the owner said, "Retail theft has gotten so bad that I just leave my cash drawer open because they're coming in, they may be getting arrested, they get an appearance ticket, and they're literally back the next day." And I took that story to Albany, and I said, "We have to do more." We have to look at the laws that are allowing this to happen. We have to look at the crimes, the sanctions we have for retail theft and aggregate crimes together, so more can be treated as felonies to stop these crime rings. And I've been tracking these numbers closely. And here in the Bronx, retail theft alone is down 20 percent, not since that time, but literally since last year. So, I want to thank the people who are making this happen on the ground. I'll continue to be a partner in driving the message in Albany that we have to do more to help our district attorneys. We have unprecedented funding for our district attorneys on retail theft and a whole series of crimes. People like Darcel Clark on the front lines helping protect our neighbors. I want to thank her and all the others who've joined us here today.
But I just want to say a couple more things. We have invested $3 billion at the state level in fighting crime. Often, it's the technology, crime-fighting license plate readers, whether it's drone technology or even something like enhancing patrols on the subways. We saw this not long ago. Started making some progress on the subways, but spring hit and all of a sudden there was a spike. We cannot tolerate a spike in this because all of a sudden, it goes back to that time when people are starting to feel unease. Is it safe to let my child take the subway to high school? Is it safe to go to a doctor's appointment if you're a senior citizen? The subway has to be safe. So, we invested people, we put more resources, and I'm proud of the budget that were just - in my opinion, is done, but they're just still voting on it - $77 million more in funding for NYPD to be able to protect our subways.
Lastly, I also know that there's been a spike in ghost guns. You know what ghost guns are? Someone can literally have a 3D printer in their kitchen and create a gun that is undetectable, obviously never registered, and use that with a little device they make. It's this big, to have it be an enhancement to a gun that is capable of having 1,300 rounds per minute. That is a weapon of mass destruction. We'll be the first state in the nation to say we are banning the sale of those products in our stores. You cannot sell a 3D printer in New York that can be enabled to create these weapons of destruction. So, these are the changes we're making in Albany. We had to focus on the repeat offenders, our discovery laws, the bail laws. And I'll just get one more editorial comment here. You can complain about a late budget, but everything I'm talking about happened in a late budget. So, I'll take a late budget any day - I prefer on time. But if that's what gets these streets safer and gives our police commissioner and our DAs and others the tools they need, then I'll be on the front lines of that as well.
So, it's about partnerships. I know we're in for a heck of a summer because we've got World Cup, have you heard about this? It's a big event, big event. We'll do a lot of events together. America 250, we are so happy to host the world, to come and see the birth of our democracy play out in reenactments and events across the state, Sail 250. So, our police officers are going to be so busy. You can count on the State of New York to be your ally and your partner to continue the work that's being done here on the streets, to be an ally, to help make sure that we all do what we want to do. We've got to prevent crimes, then have to solve crimes. Thank you very much. Well, I'll introduce you, but it is an honor to introduce you, because your reputation has spread across our nation in terms of someone who has the commonsense approach and the leadership skills to protect the largest, most diverse city in this country. So, ladies and gentlemen, it's a huge point of pride for me to introduce our police commissioner, Jessica Tisch.
Police Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch: Good morning, everyone. I want to thank Governor Hochul for joining us today. Governor, you have been a true partner to the NYPD - committed to the mission, supportive of the men and women of this department, and deeply invested in [the] public safety of New York City. I also want to thank Mayor Mamdani for his leadership and for recognizing the importance of this moment for the Bronx and for this department. Mr. Mayor, thank you so much for being here. And thanks, of course, to Borough President Vanessa Gibson and District Attorney Darcel Clark for their partnership in the work that we are doing to drive down violence and strengthen public safety across this borough. And finally, to Council Member Amanda Farías, who just today introduced a bill in the City Council that will raise the maximum age at which someone can become a police officer from 35 to 42. Council member, thank you so much for your partnership.
Today is long overdue and a historic moment for the residents of the Bronx, for the officers doing this work, and for a borough that has carried one of the heaviest public safety burdens anywhere in the city. We are formally launching Patrol Borough Bronx North and Patrol Borough Bronx South, a major restructuring that will bring more resources, more specialized units, and more leadership directly into Bronx communities. For years, the structure of patrol in the Bronx remained largely unchanged, even as the borough itself changed dramatically. The Bronx continued operating under a single patrol borough command, one leadership structure overseeing every precinct in the borough, while Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens all moved years and years ago to two patrol borough commands to handle the scale of the work there.
Meanwhile, calls for service here have increased. Operational demands have intensified, and the workload placed on this borough has continued to grow. Last year alone, the Bronx generated nearly one million 911 calls for service, the highest volume of any borough in the city. Bronx residents have raised this issue with the NYPD for years. And they're asking a fair question. Why should a borough carrying this level of demand continue operating under a structure that would not be acceptable elsewhere in New York City? The answer is it should not. This is about equity and the residents of the Bronx receiving the same quality police service that every New Yorker deserves.
Under this new model, Patrol Borough Bronx North and Patrol Borough Bronx South will each have dedicated personnel and specialized units, including homicide squads, evidence collection teams, neighborhood safety teams, auto crime units and narcotics teams. And this will bring nearly 200 more cops to the Bronx. I want to thank Mayor Mamdani for including this in his budget. And let me be clear, this restructuring is not a response to failure. It is a decision to build on what is already working. The crime reductions in the Bronx so far this year are nothing short of remarkable.
In the Bronx alone, major crime was down more than 15 percent last month and 11 percent since the start of the year. Also in April, the Bronx saw only four murders, the fewest in recorded history. Shooting incidents were down 58 percent and shooting victims declined 65 percent compared to April of last year. From year to date, murders are down more than 15 percent and shooting incidents and shooting victims are down 9 percent and 9.5 percent, respectively, in the borough. These results are the product of a data-driven precision policing strategy focused on the places driving violence in this city, putting officers on footposts where they're needed most and during the hours they're needed most [and] going after illegal guns and building cases against the gangs and the crews that are responsible for driving violence in our communities.
As part of our precision policing strategy, we're also seeing significant progress in auto crime conditions in the Bronx. At the end of April, the NYPD, in conjunction with our great DA Clark, took down a major Bronx-based auto theft crew responsible for stealing more than a million dollars in auto parts. Since that takedown, if you compare the first two weeks of May to the first two weeks of April, tire and rim thefts in the Bronx are down an incredible 76 percent. I also want to recognize Assistant Chief Ben Gurley, who has done a magnificent job leading Patrol Borough Bronx. The historic reductions that we are seeing in the Bronx did not happen by accident, and Chief Gurley's leadership has been central to that success.
I am so proud that he will continue that work as commanding officer of Patrol Borough Bronx North and Assistant Chief Brian Hennessy will now lead Patrol Borough Bronx South. Chief Hennessy previously served for more than two years as commanding officer of the 40th Precinct in the South Bronx, and he understands these communities and the public safety challenges that they face. He is an exceptional leader, and I have every confidence in his leadership as we strengthen [the] NYPD's presence and resources across this borough. Now, when the weather gets warmer, the entire rhythm of the city changes. People spend more time outside. Parks, playgrounds, commercial corridors and beaches all become more crowded; schools let out; activity stretches later into the night; and historically, violence expands into different places and different hours.
So earlier this month the NYPD launched its 2026 Summer Violence Reduction Plan, a citywide public safety initiative designed specifically around the conditions that we see every summer in New York City. The plan runs through mid-September and includes 72 violence reduction zones across all five boroughs. More than 2,600 uniformed officers will be deployed or are being deployed as part of this plan. Those deployments are concentrated during the hours when violence historically spikes, particularly between the evening and early morning hours. That means more officers on footposts [and] more resources in parks, at beaches and in the neighborhoods that need them most.
And while this plan is still in its early days, we are already seeing encouraging results in our summer zones during deployment hours. Since inception, major crime in those zones is down nearly 41 percent. Traditional summer deployments are already active at locations like Coney Island, Prospect Park, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Flushing Meadows Park and Orchard Beach. Mounted unit officers are being deployed in parks across the Bronx. And our Q-Team deployments are focused on issues like illegal car meets and drag racing, dangerous and disruptive activity that creates serious quality of life and public safety concerns for communities across the city.
So far this year, we've issued nearly 650 summonses, made 69 arrests and seized 129 vehicles. This is a citywide issue that has been especially prevalent in the Bronx, where the NYPD has repeatedly responded to large-scale car meet activity. Before I close, I want to take a moment to thank the men and women of the New York City Police Department. They are the ones out there every night, on footposts in the heat, responding to dangerous jobs, recovering illegal guns and keeping order in neighborhoods across the city during some of the busiest and most difficult months of the year.
The work is demanding, and the conditions are often unforgiving. But they continue to show up and deliver for the people of this city, and the results that New Yorkers are seeing across the five boroughs are only possible because of the commitment and, yes, the sacrifice that these officers bring to the job every tour. It is now my pleasure to introduce [Bronx] Borough President Vanessa Gibson.
Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson: Good morning, everyone. What a beautiful day that we have truly been blessed with. What a beautiful day to serve as the Bronx borough president. I am so grateful to have our Governor Kathy Hochul; our New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani; our New York City Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch; our First Deputy Commissioner Tania Kinsella; my colleagues in government, District Attorney Darcel Clark and Council Member Amanda Farías; our Chief of Patrol Phil Rivera; our Assistant Chief Benjamin Gurley; our Assistant Chief Brian Hennessy; as well as clergy and so many of our distinguished community leaders.
Ladies and gentlemen, today, we take a bold step forward in recognizing that the Bronx, for so long, has not always been prioritized when it comes to supporting the men and women of the NYPD in this way. Today, we join our colleagues in the boroughs of Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens for this official NYPD launch of Patrol Borough Bronx North and Bronx South. I am excited about this new opportunity for our borough. I am excited about the continued partnership that we have with the NYPD. I first take a moment to acknowledge that as we make this important announcement today. There are many families across our borough that are mourning the loss of a loved one, of a child, that are dealing with trauma associated with violence, particularly gun violence. We keep those families close to our hearts, and we know that public safety is a shared responsibility.
The violence that we have seen in this borough is unacceptable and we will never accept it as normal. Last week I had to acknowledge a mom and her five-year-old daughter walking down the street in Longwood. The five-year-old little girl was grazed by a bullet. We are so thankful that she is going to be okay, but it reminds us of the importance of this work. I take this moment to congratulate our Assistant Chief Benjamin Gurley, now serving in Bronx North and I want to thank Ben Gurley for the last almost three years of leading this borough with commitment, dedication, honesty, integrity and leadership. Together, we've had great partnerships, serving in this capacity over 12 commands. And although it was not easy, we did the work that we were called to do. Congratulations, Assistant Chief Benjamin Gurley.
I take this moment to congratulate Assistant Chief Brian Hennessy, someone who is known to us, as he previously served as the commanding officer right here in the 4L. And we work together with the 40th Precinct Council led by Gabe De Jesus and so many of our leaders here in the South Bronx. And I look forward to working with both Chief Gurley and Chief Hennessy as well as their leadership teams. The Bronx is at a critical moment in this city where leadership and guidance are critical to successfully implement the department's strategy to expand resources across our borough. You've heard the numbers. Our numbers are good and we want to keep them good. We want to keep our numbers going down.
With the investment of each borough's command, detective units, community affairs, NSTs, the quality-of-life teams, the administrative civilian staff, 200 additional police officers, we know that is going to make a profound difference. We all have a role to play with the creation of two new patrol borough commands. The NYPD will have more control [and] more oversight of the precincts within their jurisdiction, Bronx North and Bronx South, ensuring that they have sufficient resources to provide to the men and women of the NYPD. From detective, investigative work, evidence collection, auto crime and all of these specialty units that we care so much about.
Earlier this year, we launched the Winter Violence Reduction Plan to address the number of shooting incidents and victims in this borough and throughout the City of New York. And earlier this month, the NYPD began its Summer Violence Reduction Plan to coordinate the summer deployment for evening footposts across 72 zones in 40 precincts, public housing and our subway system. I acknowledge the partnership with PSA 7, PSA 8, Transit District 11 and Transit District 12. We represent some of those violent zones and crime reduction strategies have brought major violent crime down in our borough and we applaud that because that is progress.
As we continue significant investment in the Bronx, we also know that we have to address the ongoing violence that we have seen among young people under 21. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, for acknowledging the youth recreation programs that we have already invested in and we will continue to invest in, like Summer Youth Employment Program, Saturday Night Lights, the NYPD Options Program, Beacon, COMPASS, SONYC Programs [and] the Cornerstones that we run. We want even more of that so that no young person has idle time this summer. We know the answer and we know jobs are the best social program that we can invest in.
I also take a moment to acknowledge the members of the New York City Crisis Management Team. CMS organizations do phenomenal work in our borough, and they work in partnership with credible messengers, trusted partners, violence interrupters and hospital responders. We work with all 12 precinct councils, [and] our business improvement districts, including The HUB and Southern Boulevard and Fordham Road and Westchester Square and many others. And so, we look forward to this new partnership. This is long overdue, but very necessary. We want to ensure that every New Yorker in this borough feels safe and is safe because we know that perception is different from reality.
Again, I want to thank our police commissioner, Jessica Tisch. I said to her on the side, "It's about time that this has happened under your leadership as our female police commissioner, with our female borough president and our female district attorney." And so, I thank you relentlessly for your support, for your investment and for not giving up on the Bronx. Sometimes people think that our borough is not filled with talent and promise and potential, but we are. We just celebrated two weeks of Bronx Week, the people that make this borough a great place to live, work, raise our families and do business.
And so now with Patrol Borough, North and South, I look forward to working with the leadership and all the men and women of the NYPD, as well as all around faith and clergy leaders that stand here at our side and proudly represent this great borough. So, thank you so much for being here in the Bronx. It's a beautiful day to celebrate and to embark on this important partnership. Now, I'd like to recognize and call up a friend, a partner, all things public safety. As borough-wide elected officials, we have a shared agenda and we speak the same language. If you see her, you usually will see me and vice versa. Because that is just how in tune, we are with each other. Ladies and gentlemen, our Bronx district attorney, Darcel Clark.
Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark: [Audio Drop.] ... Mr. Mayor, thank you for being here and [for] your leadership in recognizing how important the Bronx is to New York City. Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, I will address her later on, but thank you for your partnership. Of course, my Borough President Vanessa Gibson, thank you for your partnership. Council Member Farías, thank you as well. And to all the men and women of [the] NYPD, thank you. This is a significant occasion for the Bronx and for New York City.
Thank you, Commissioner Jessica Tisch, for your leadership, your collaboration and most importantly, for making the Bronx a priority. We are finally, finally getting our fair share of NYPD resources, and we are now on par with Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens, and this is especially important when the Bronx has suffered more violence than any other borough, even with our record lows in crime recently.
Having two NYPD patrol borough commands adds essential support to improve public safety for the entire Bronx. Additional police officers will help prevent crime and strengthen community ties. I know that Bronx residents, businesses, religious and cultural institutions and the people who work here want safety more than ever. I think the presence of more police will deter crime rather than produce more arrests. Localized patrols and investigators will enhance already exceptional crime-solving. Bronx detectives have traditionally had the best clearance rate for homicides in New York City. Chief Ben Gurley, thank you for your outstanding leadership for the last three years as borough commander of the Bronx and now as our North commander. And Chief Brian Hennessy, welcome back to the Bronx as South commander.
I look forward to the new strategy and partnership with the excellent women and men of [the] NYPD who serve our great borough. Of course, I'm a little biased being married to a member of the service who served this city for 40 years as a detective. You know, it's just a continuation of the great work that we've already been doing here in Bronx County. Two weeks ago, as the police commissioner mentioned, we announced an indictment of 16 people stealing cars and valuable auto parts, victimizing 252 Bronx vehicle owners here in our borough. It was a long-standing investigation with Bronx detectives to bring this crew to justice.
And just last week, we arrested three men for selling nine firearms, including [a] semi-automatic rifle capable of firing ammunition in hunting or in combat, to an undercover police officer. We are doing the work. We've been doing the work, and with more resources now, more help, it'll be even better. We must stem the tide of guns and violence that plagues the Bronx. The people here in the Bronx are resilient and hopeful and deserve the quality of life and safe communities to raise their family.
I'm grateful for these resources, and today's announcement is just one way, just one way to address the long-term disinvestment in Bronx communities. And I look forward to help from other city agencies, Mr. Mayor, and Madam Governor, to address the community needs that law enforcement cannot address. Remember: the safest communities are the ones that have the most resources. Thank you very much.
Question: Mr. Mayor, I know that this is a big moment for the Bronx in terms of dividing the borough commands. But I also want to talk to you about the fact the Summer Violence Program and the fact that you're taking 2,600 people and putting them on post. What do you think that's going to mean in terms of summer violence and reducing the summer violence, not only your hope but what your aspirations are?
Mayor Mamdani: So, Marcia, if I'm correct, it's a question around the hope and aspiration around summer violence. Is that correct? I'm proud to stand here alongside leaders not only across the state, the city, the borough [and] the district, [but] all of us [are] united in the fact that we want to build on what we've seen over the course of this year. We're proud of the record lows, whether it's in murders or shootings, the drop in auto theft, [or] the drop in crime overall. We also want to build on that, to continue to deliver the safest possible city and the safest possible summer. And so, part of this investment, is an investment that has been a long time coming in ensuring that the Bronx is treated the same as Queens and Manhattan and Brooklyn. Part of this is also geared with this summer in mind.
We want to have more officers that are walking the beat. We want to ensure that we're investing in our young people in the kinds of programs that we put forward. We want this summer to be, as the governor mentioned, a summer where people remember the World Cup, Sail250, America 250 [and] the Knicks run right now. We want these to be the memories. And as part of that, it means putting in these kinds of investments. So, our hope is that this is a fun summer. It's maybe slightly a less hot summer than today. I feel like I'm going to dissolve in front of you. And that it's going to be a safe summer. That's our hope.
Question: Police commissioner, a question for you. Just wondering how - where you guys are going to be getting some of these 200 officers, where you're going to be moving them from? Is this going to make other precincts short staffed? And then separately on youth violence, just wondering, do you still want changes to raise the age? And governor, do you want to also tackle that this year?
Police Commissioner Tisch: So last year, I'm going to answer the first question. Last year, we had an incredible hiring year. We hired over 4,000 new police officers. That is the largest hiring year in the city's history, or since we [have kept] records. And because of that hiring, we are able to put a lot of new officers into precincts and free up existing officers to come here to the Bronx. So no, this should not have an effect on staffing numbers in other commands.
Question: So, where is the Bronx North Precinct going to be located? Can you talk about how many officers are going to be divided between each precinct [or] command center? And also, as for the summer reduction or summer plan with officers being deployed overnight on footposts-
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Police Commissioner Tisch: So, the Bronx South Borough is going to be located right here in the old 40th Precinct. Bronx North Borough is going to be located in the 48th Precinct, where the current Patrol Borough Bronx is located. So that's the answer to your first question. What was your second question?
Question: With the summer deployment plan, the situation [that the] BP mentioned with the five-year-old who was shot last week, that happened at five o'clock in the afternoon in the middle of the rush. Are you focusing efforts on deploying more officers during the daytime hours as well?
Police Commissioner Tisch: Yeah, absolutely. So, one thing that we started this year, which has worked very well in terms of driving down gun violence and other sorts of crime, especially related to youth, is our school corridors. So those are corridors that kids take on their way to school or mainly on their way home from school, transit hubs, commercial corridors, et cetera. And in those youth zones that we have created, we saw crime and shootings go down dramatically this year. That is something that we are going to continue to do into the summer. Obviously, those corridors are going to be adjusted because school is going to be out. But this is all part of our data-driven approach to driving down crime generally, but particularly violent crime in the city.
And I want to address the point you made about the five-year-old. Yes, we are making a tremendous amount of progress on shootings in this city. Last year, we saw record-low numbers of shooting incidents and shooting victims. And this year, we're about 10 percent below last year's record lows. But we know that we always have more work to do. So long as there is any violence or gun violence in this city, the New York City Police Department is going to continue to look at the data and aggressively deploy cops to prevent it. And of course, as the mayor said, work with other city agencies and partners to make sure that kids have alternatives to violence [and] that kids have alternatives to joining gangs.
