Violent crime in New York City has seen a steep decline in the opening months of 2025, coinciding with NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch’s decisive and reform-focused leadership.
After assuming control of the department late last year, Tisch quickly removed several senior officials accused of misconduct and rolled out sweeping reforms aimed at enhancing public safety and addressing quality-of-life concerns across the five boroughs.
As the first three months of the year wrapped up, newly finalized crime statistics shared exclusively with The Post offered a clear view of the impact of those reforms.
The number of murders dropped significantly, with 63 recorded killings this quarter compared to 96 in the same stretch of 2024 — a dramatic 35% reduction, sources said.
Shooting incidents also dropped notably, with 140 reported so far in 2025 and 164 victims, a decrease from the 182 shootings and 214 victims recorded during the same time frame last year.
If crime continues to fall at this rate, New York City could be headed toward its safest year in nearly a decade, potentially matching lows last seen in 2017 for homicides and 2018 for shootings.
“Tisch is running this like a business, and the bottom line is crime reduction,” a detective based in Manhattan told The NY Post.
This positive trend follows another milestone — NYC ended February with the lowest number of shootings in 30 years.
Since stepping into her role in November, Tisch has moved quickly to revive dormant initiatives and implement a new system that monitors police follow-ups on 311 complaints, part of a broader mission to enhance daily life for residents.
A major element of her reform strategy is a newly created “Quality of Life” unit designed to crack down on issues such as public drug use, aggressive begging, and street homelessness. This unit operates under a unified command structure, which Tisch said improves focus and consistency by having officers report to streamlined leadership rather than scattered departmental units.
In addition, Tisch adjusted the entry requirements for the police academy, aiming to increase the department’s ranks. Among her changes: reinstating the timed 1.5-mile run and lowering the required number of college credits from 60 to 24.
Earlier this year, Tisch penned a guest column in The Post, emphasizing the urgency of tackling recidivism — a problem she sees as undermining both public confidence and officer morale.
“Imagine how disheartening it is for our cops to arrest the same people, for the same crimes, in the same neighborhoods, over and over. And how scary it is for New Yorkers to see the same person who victimized them one day, walking the streets the next,” Tisch wrote.
“The time for band-aids and half measures is over, because the revolving door of the criminal justice system fails to put the rights and needs of victims first. New Yorkers demand, and they certainly deserve, better.”
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