Mayor de Blasio and Police Commissioner O'Neil held a press conference to discuss crime statistics for the previous month along with serious weather conditions the city was facing.
The Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs Annual Report provides a demographic overview of New York City's immigrant population, and describes barriers faced by immigrant New Yorkers, particularly due to increasingly hostile federal immigration policy developments.
New York City marked 3 new benchmarks in relation to crime benchmarks: the first time the total number of index crimes has fallen below 100,000; the first time the number of shooting incidents has fallen below 800; and the first time the total number of murders has fallen below 300.