NYPD: NYC shootings dropped, but major crime increased last month
There were 118 recorded shootings in May, down from 172 in the same month last year, according to NYPD data.
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There were 118 recorded shootings in May, down from 172 in the same month last year, according to NYPD data.
Andre T. Mitchell, a founder of a Brooklyn violence interruption group, will co-chair a new task force that will neither draw a budget nor have the power to direct city resources.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams, in response to the mass shootings that have occurred around the United States over the five months he has been in office, on Thursday named a "gun violence czar" to hea. New York mayor names "gun violence czar" | World | English edition | Agencia EFE
New York, Jun 2 (EFE).- New York City Mayor Eric Adams, in response to the mass shootings that have occurred around the United States over the five months he has been in office, on Thursday named a “gun violence czar” to head an ad hoc group tasked with preventing and/or finding a solution to this …
“Everybody's going to start telling me ‘Why did you pick this one? Why don't you pick that? Because I'm the mayor,” Adams said.