Posted inPublic Safety
The State of Crime in New York City, 2025
What happened in 2025 and what it bodes for 2026
Public Safety
Posted inPublic Safety
City Effort to Dispatch Mental Health Workers Ends in Police Response 86% of the Time
Reacting to the police shooting of Jabez Chakraborty, Mayor Mamdani plans to speed up the expansion of community responders, but a CITY analysis of existing efforts found that 911 dispatchers call in cops in the vast majority of cases.
Posted inImmigration
ICE Detained a 4-Year-Old U.S. Citizen and her Honduran Family in Hotels for Weeks
The mother and her two young children, one of them born in the United States, were not able to contact the outside world for nearly three weeks while being held in hotel rooms in Queens and Louisiana.
Posted inPublic Safety
NYPD Botched Domestic Violence Responses Before a Murder, Newly Released Records Show
The unsolved case, in which an alleged aggressor was slain, was among several bungled domestic violence incidents revealed through a lawsuit by THE CITY.
Posted inJails and Prisons
Adams Suspended Jail Rules Banning Solitary. Will Mamdani End the ‘Emergency’ Monday?
The new mayor is immediately confronted with an expiring executive order and a federal case that has headed off a City Council law sharply restricting solitary confinement.
Posted inAdams World: Investigated
Eric Adams Reigned Over a Run of Scandal Not Seen Since Boss Tweed
The mayor’s corruption indictment capped a string of criminal charges, FBI raids and abrupt resignations that destroyed his popularity and took down his crony-laden palace guard.
Posted inCriminal Justice
Use of Force By NYPD Officers Surged 20% Last Year
The 11,746 incidents of use of force in 2024 by police officers marked the highest number since detailed record-keeping began in 2016.
Posted inCity Council, Health, Public Safety
Hub Built to Help Survivors of Crime Rebuild Their Lives Opens in Brooklyn
The City Council-funded trauma recovery center offers free care — from therapy to housing help — for victims of violence.
Posted inAdams World: Investigated
Construction CEO Linked to Banks Brothers Probe Indicted in Manhattan
Anthony Tepedino, hit with fraud charges by U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton, promoted a consultant under investigation for whether he steered clients to his siblings, who were top officials under Mayor Eric Adams.
Posted inImmigration
Federal Judge Orders Deposition of New York ICE Deputy Field Office Director
William Joyce — who seized the internet’s attention for wearing a shirt with a toucan drinking a beer on it — will face questions about conditions inside holding cells at 26 Federal Plaza.