Jay Clayton, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said Tuesday his top priorities on the job include focusing on “what everyday New Yorkers want,” such as going after gun and fentanyl-based crimes and increasing the speed of corporate compliance in white collar criminal investigations.

“For me, it's what would New Yorkers want us to do? As you walk the streets, ride the subway, take your kids to school, there are people you interact with. How would they want us to spend our time? What would they want us to do?” Clayton said during a live interview by Sullivan & Cromwell’s James McDonald at a New York City Bar Association conference on white collar crime.

“For me right now…it’s [decreasing] crimes with guns,” Clayton said on his primary objective. “We should be able to

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