Smarter and more focused crime-fighting in New York City, which NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill called "precision policing," has led to a 4.1 percent drop in the 2016 crime rate, O'Neill told Sunday's "The Cats Roundtable."
"Precision policing – where we're focusing all of our resources on the very small percentage of the population that's involved and violence, crime and the drug trade – by doing that, we manage to continually push down crime," O'Neill told host John Catsimatidis on AM 970 in New York.
O'Neill hailed his department's smart-phone program which "can access all of the department databases, so we can get as much information to our officers to make them as effective as possible."
There is a growing issue with drug activity in New York, though, which they will continue to crack down on, O'Neill admitted. NYPD officers do carry the drug that reverses the effects of an antidote to help revive people, he said, but getting the root of the epidemic is still paramount.
"We are seeing an increase in [heroin] overdoses across the city," he said "We investigate . . . each death and see where that person purchased the illegal narcotics."
New York's dropping crime rate is a contrast to the issues which plagued Chicago and its rash of shooting deaths in 2016.
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