reintroduced the plain clothes police units but most importantly has demanded that they conduct precision policing targeting the violent the handgun violence that has been perpetrated upon the citizens of new york. so i think they re targeted enforcement will have significant positive results in stemming the tide of violence. i m going to put up some full screen graphics of the rise in violence in this city. in 2021 the tally for major crime which includes murder, robbery, rape, grand larceny, grand larceny of a vehicle topped 100,000 incidents. the first time since 2016. a lot of low-level crime. i don t have the numbers for you now. anecdotally anyone in new york can tell you about that lower level crime. there s push back from the manhattan da. alvin brag who said that he wasn t going to prosecute seven misdemeanors, lower level crime. he was quoted saying.
growth of guns in various neighborhoods in this huge, sprawling city? well, we re going to use first of all, we re going to beef up our gun suppression unit, an amazing number of 16 detectives that are assigned to analyze violent gangs. every time you see a shooting, look at the next sentence and you see gun related for the most part. they are going to target violent gangs, and we are going to make sure that we use the data that s there. we know who the shooters are, the trigger pullers in the city. so we re going to have precision policing to target those areas of the 30 precincts, 30 precincts, 80% of the violence in the city. many of them around our nycha facilities. the residents there are crying for help to stop being held hostage in their communities, but we also are going to use precision resources. that s the beauty of this plan.
interaction and i m going to make sure the right officers are signed there, with precision policing, to go after those who are dangerous gangs and carrying guns in my city. law enforcement officials that i have spoken with say that the biggest problem, the biggest cause of the rise in crime is what they call police withdrawal. both a literal withdrawal of police leaving the force, but also withdrawal from the community. so how do you propose, first of all, do you see that as a problem, and second, how do you alter that, how do you give police the sense to get back in and face this? well, what you are just showing is how i keep laying out the various rivers of stopping the sea of violence. that s a river we must deal with. we must deal with a city, and cities where we re telling police officers that people can walk in stores, steal items off the shelves and no one is going to prosecute them. you can do evasion of a city and
new york city mayor eric adams says one part to stem violent crime will be reviving a controversial police unit. it was abolished because of abuse. but adams says it is needed and it will patriot with new rules. we want to institute an anti-gun unit where police officers will have a modified version of police uniform apparel. they want to be better trained. we re going to use technology with cameras to video every interaction. and i m going to make sure the right officers are assigned there. precision policing to go after those who are dangerous gangs and carrying guns in my city. with us is errol lewis, host of new york one s inside city hall. grateful for your time today. this is a giant challenge for a guy on the job for a little over three weeks. he s not afraid to bring back this controversial unit. put that into context for us and what it means.
58%. during a time in our nation where there have been calls to defund the police, a rally was held friday in new york city outside manhattan district attorney s office working to clarify the framework of how his office will prosecute serious and low-level crime. he s corrupting the office of the district attorney by imposing his personal ideology into the office. during his visit to the big apple thursday, president biden promised federal money to fight gun trafficking. mayor erica adams announcing friday that he is in the process of assembling an anti-gun unit which will work on precision policing. adams had a busy week, also issuing an apology after a video surfaced of him using a racial slur in 2019, colin white politi colin white police officers crackers. someone asked me about that