Kudos to Eric Adams for Bringing Down Murders — But There’s a Lot More Crime To Be Reined In

Under Mayor Eric Adams, murders and shootings are way down.

How’s he doin’? Mayor Eric Adams unofficially wraps up his first long, humid summer in office today — and he deserves a little post-summer vacation, but then a cram session.

Murders and shootings are way down, an unqualified success when New Yorkers were girding for a third bloodbath-summer in a row. But other crime is up. 

For 30 years, New York mayors have lived or died, politically, by how many people have actually lived or died. Murder-wise, New York, and thus the mayor, have had a good summer, and a good year.  

For August (through the 28th), murders were down a remarkable 51%, to 25, from 51 last August. That number is a 26% drop from the 34 in August 2019.

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Nicole Gelinas is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor at City Journal. Follow her on Twitter here. 

This piece originally appeared in New York Post