Mayor marks milestone: 20,000 illegal guns seized by NYPD in last 3 years

More than 20,000 amerciable guns person been seized by the NYPD during the Adams administration, the politician and constabulary commissioner said Wednesday.

The authoritative tally — 20,137 since the commencement of 2022, including 377 truthful acold this twelvemonth — is updated regular connected the NYPD website. More than 1,400 of the seized weapons were untraceable shade guns.

Confiscated guns connected show astatine the 25th Precinct successful East Harlem, Manhattan, connected Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (Barry Williams/ New York Daily News)

But Mayor Adams and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, astatine a property league astatine the 25th Precinct, successful East Harlem, stressed the communicative down the numbers.

“That’s 20,000 weapons that nary longer tin endanger the information of New Yorkers and our neighborhoods, our families and our children,” Adams said, “20,000 less chances that a New Yorker is changeable oregon killed.”

From right, New York City Mayor Eric Adams, Jackie Rowe-Adams, president and co-founder of Harlem Mothers Stop Another Violent End, and NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, look astatine confiscated guns earlier speaking astatine East Harlem’s 25th Precinct connected Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (Barry Williams/ New York Daily News)

Tisch, meanwhile, lamented a transgression justness strategy that excessively often returns to the streets those charged with weapon crimes.

“Far excessively often,” she said, “violent criminals arrested with amerciable guns find themselves close backmost connected our streets, cycling done a strategy that fails to clasp them accountable.”

Originally Published: January 22, 2025 astatine 4:48 PM EST