In a portion of an interview with NBC News correspondent Stephanie Gosk that aired on Wednesday’s “NBC Nightly News” broadcast, New York City Police Department Traffic Commissioner Michael Kemper said police had made “more than 50 arrests, more than 100… “arrests” have been made, he said. Mayor Eric Adams (D) said in a separate interview with FOX 5 that a small number of people, such as assaulting transit workers and shoplifting, are committing numerous crimes and that the city is “at risk of recidivism.” ”. Criminals who assault transit workers commit an average of nearly 30 crimes per person, and shoplifters commit approximately 14 crimes per person.
“Michael Kemper is the NYPD’s chief of traffic. The big problem, he says, is recidivism,” Gosk said on NBC.
She then played a clip of Kemper saying, “We make over 50 arrests, over 100 arrests at any given time.”
In a separate interview on Fox 5 New York’s “Good Day New York,” Adams said, “38 people assaulted transit workers. Of those 38 people, they were in our city. They committed 1,126 crimes and are at risk of reoffending. The same goes for shoplifters, with 542 people committing more than 7,600 crimes in the city.”
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