NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch speaking at a press conference on the city's crime statistics at department headquarters on July 2, 2026. William Farrington for The NY Post

Police boss Jessica Tisch and her NYPD rank-and-file have performed downright miracles — cutting the number of murders for the first six months of the year to its lowest level in all of recorded history. That’s real lives saved.

Yet New Yorkers shouldn’t feel complacent: Danger signs are on the horizon.

So far, through June 30, shootings and murders are the lowest they’ve ever been for the first half of a year. Major crimes have dipped 6%. 

And all this while handling major events like the NBA finals, Knicks ticker-tape parade and FIFA’s World Cup.

At the same time, though, subway and bus crimes have surged in the majority of NYPD patrol boroughs.

Crimes are up nearly a third in the Bronx North Patrol Borough, 25% in the Manhattan North Patrol Borough, 17% in Bronx South and 16% in Brooklyn South.

And over the Fourth of July weekend, 12 people were shot, including four kids at a Brooklyn barbecue.

Plus, a confrontation with a gun-toting teen in Crown Heights on Sunday led to Detective Robert Karroll being struck in the back (his bulletproof vest saved him), though investigators believe the shot was the result of friendly fire.

Most worrisome, the budget Mayor Zohran Mamdani recently agreed on freezes the NYPD headcount, scrapping plans to add 580 cops, that almost all crime experts believe is critical.

And the socialist mayor’s base keeps pushing him #DefundThePolice ever more.

Nor is that the end of problem. Cuomo-era criminal-justice reforms continue to take a toll.

Major felonies, at 56,647 through July 5, are on pace to end the year still well above the corresponding number in 2019, just before cashless bail went into effect.

Tisch notes that teens, “including kids as young as 12 and 13,” are driving up robberies.

Thank the Raise the Age law, which let thugs under 18 be treated as kids rather than adults — meaning they face no serious consequences for their crimes.

Last week, Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark nabbed 19 reputed gang members — including 18 minors.

She blamed the broken law, in particular, for the spike in crimes by young people: “The youth justice system, quite frankly, is broken.”

Tisch and her cops have been beyond heroic in keeping crime numbers down.

The question is: Will Mamdani and New York’s dysfunctional pro-criminal laws soon undermine all her gains?