During a portion of an interview with NBC News Correspondent Stephanie Gosk that was aired on Wednesday's broadcast of "NBC Nightly News," NYPD Transit Chief Michael Kemper said that the police arrest people who "have 50-plus arrests, 100-plus arrests" "all the time" and in a different interview with Fox 5, Mayor Eric Adams (D) stated that the city has a "recidivism crisis" where a small amount of people who have assaulted transit workers or shoplifted have committed a large number of crimes, with the criminals who assault transit workers averaging nearly 30 crimes per person and the shoplifters committing around 14 crimes per person.