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Crime rate lowest on my watch, asserts NYC Mayor Adams
He considers his biggest achievement as putting $30 billion back in the pockets of working-class New Yorkers.
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Lalit K Jha - Fri, 06, Jun 2025
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NYC Mayor Eric Adams. / Lalit K Jha
New York City has never been as peaceful as it has been in the last few months with a drastic reduction in crime and murders, Mayor Eric Adams asserts.
In an exclusive interview to New India Abroad, Adams says: “We brought down crime, particularly those dangerous crimes, such as shootings and homicides. The last five months, we had the lowest number of homicides and shootings in the recorded history of the city.”
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Having served the NYPD as a police officer for over two decades, he knows his city. But he looks at the city beyond crime as a hub of peace for its residents, especially the students.
Here is what he wants to do: “I want to teach my children about artificial intelligence, blockchain, cryptocurrency, I want to make sure that we improve on our educational system.
That’s part of it. Health is the other. “We want to go after some of the healthcare targets and look at those things that feed our healthcare crises, such as smoking, such as the mental health issues we're seeing on social media. I want to focus on that more.”
He favors a quick-response government by using technology. “I want to run a smarter city. Government is still moving too slowly in comparison to private industry. We have to start running faster. And payments of goods and services, how to use technology to process the needs that people have.”
What were his developmental objectives he achieved as mayor? “We put $30 billion back into the pockets of working-class New Yorkers in a number of creative ways that were within our span of control, such as decreasing the cost of childcare from $55 a week to less than $5 a week, paying for college tuition for foster-care children and giving them a stipend so that they can be able to take care of themselves, giving free high-speed broadband for public housing residents.”
On the jobs front, Adams is confident of his record holding good. “We have the most jobs in New York City in the history of our city. We broke the record seven times, 11 times actually; our own record. The trajectory of New York is something that I'm focused on now and in the future.”
In one word, what is his biggest accomplishment? He has that word ready on his lips: “Affordability.”
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