Back in March, the Wall Street Journal profiled New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, raving about her performance in her first few months on the job and wishing she would run for mayor.

In the four months since Mr. Adams appointed her commissioner, she has wrought a minor miracle. February marked the third straight month of double-digit declines in citywide index crime—the seven categories of serious crime that include murder, rape and aggravated assault. Crime “is down across every city borough,” she says, and down “by 28 percent below ground, in our subways.”

These gains in safety have been achieved through innovations that make for more effective and rational policing. Ms. Tisch has tweaked CompStat—the daily counting of crime statistics by precinct, introduced by Commissioner William Bratton in 1994—into a computation of crime by “zones.” Precincts are too big, she says, with an average area of 4 square miles. There is an additional focus now on “pockets of crime, or pockets of violence, or trouble spots,” where cops are dispatched in concentration. She calls it “a scalpel approach to fighting crime”—one that has yielded declines of 40 percent to 50 percent in such zones as Roosevelt Avenue in Queens, 125th Street in Manhattan and the Fulton Street corridor in downtown Brooklyn.

At the beginning of this month, the NYPD said the first half of 2025 had continued the good progress:

Police Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch today announced that New York City saw the lowest number of shooting victims in recorded history — and tied the all-time low for shooting incidents — during the first half of 2025. From January through June, the city recorded 397 shooting victims, down 24 percent from the same period last year, and 337 shooting incidents, a 23 percent decline year over year.

Shooting incidents were also down 30 percent in the month of June and 22 percent in the second quarter.

Citywide, major crime declined by 6 percent through the first half of 2025, with reductions in six of the seven major categories. Murders dropped 23 percent (146 vs. 190), robbery fell 13 percent (7,146 vs. 8241), grand larceny dropped 7 percent (22,238 vs. 23,978), auto theft fell 4.5 percent (6,455 vs. 6,758) and felony assault declined one percent (14,426 vs. 14,561).

Not all those declines are that steep, but any decline is welcome news.

But this ongoing decline in crime appears to be doing jack squat for the mayoral prospects of Eric Adams, the incumbent and former cop; he’s running fourth out of four major candidates right now. Once you remove the Adams campaign’s internal polls, surveys where Adams is ahead of Republican Curtis Sliwa are pretty rare. It appears that New Yorkers have decided they’re not willing to consider a continuation of the status quo.

Yes, Adams was indeed the mayor who gave the key to the city to Sean “Diddy” Combs back in September 2023, but Combs did give the key back in June. (After all, Combs wouldn’t want his reputation hurt by associating with a one time indicted criminal like the mayor.)

Well, if Zohran “Prisons? What purpose do they serve, right?” Mamdani becomes mayor, it is likely that the policies of Commissioner Tisch that are working will be reversed. Don’t worry, New Yorkers! Mamdani is coming to save you from declining crime rates!