More than 20, 000 illegal weapons have been seized by the NYPD during the Adams leadership, the governor and officers director said Wednesday.
The official tally — 20, 137 since the start of 2022, including 377 so far this year — is updated regularly on the NYPD site. Anonymous ghost guns made up more than 1,400 of the weapons seized.
But Mayor Eric Adams and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, at a media conference at the , 25th Precinct, in East Harlem, stressed the history behind the statistics.
” That’s 20, 000 arms that no longer can threaten the safety of New Yorkers and our neighborhoods, our communities and our children”, Adams said, “20, 000 fewer chances that a New Yorker is shot or killed”.
Tisch, however, lamented a criminal justice system that also usually returns to the roads those charged with firearm crimes.
” Far too often”, she said, “violent criminals arrested with illegal weapons find themselves right back on our streets, cycling through a program that fails to hold them accountable”.
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