New York City Deputy Mayor Kaz Daughtry told Newsmax on Friday that crime rates were already down before the city’s bust of nearly 30 Tren de Aragua members earlier this week.
Daughtry, tapped by Mayor Eric Adams to the deputy in charge of public safety in February, joined “American Agenda” two days after federal charges dropped on 27 TDA members for alleged transnational crimes in Peru and the U.S.
“Well, you gotta remember the crime numbers were going down even when TDA was here. We went five straight quarters of crime going down, and the mayor ran his campaign on bringing down and reducing crime,” Daughtry said. “And the mere fact that this crew, that this TDA crew, and we’re going after the MS-13 — there’s other ones in the pipe that I’m not going to break any news here that are coming up next — but I think that the crews in the gangs, especially TDA, are afraid now because they know that we’re aggressively going after them and we’re not shy about it. We’re talking about it. We’re aggressively going at it.
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