More than 20,000 illegal guns have been seized by the NYPD during the Adams administration, the mayor and police commissioner said Wednesday.
The official tally — 20,137 since the start of 2022, including 377 so far this year — is updated daily on the NYPD website. More than 1,400 of the seized weapons were untraceable ghost guns.
But Mayor Eric Adams and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, at a press conference at the 25th Precinct, in East Harlem, stressed the story behind the numbers.
“That’s 20,000 weapons that no longer can threaten the safety of New Yorkers and our neighborhoods, our families and our children,” Adams said, “20,000 fewer chances that a New Yorker is shot or killed.”
Tisch, meanwhile, lamented a criminal justice system that too often returns to the streets those charged with gun crimes.
“Far too often,” she said, “violent criminals arrested with illegal guns find themselves right back on our streets, cycling through a system that fails to hold them accountable.”
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