‘They know the police inside and out’: Law and order representative to the mayor of New York

As New York City’s mayoral race began in earnest late last year the city was still marred by the assassination of George Floyd and cries of “police retaliation” were heard from the Bronx to Battery Park.

Now, as Tuesday’s main Democratic Party draws to a close, Eric Adams – a former black police officer who has appealed to many NYPD officials – is one of the most competitive candidates who has been a referendum on New York’s views on police and public safety.

Several studies have shown Adams lead The role of overcrowding as a result of gunfire and violent crimes has put public safety at the forefront of voter crisis while the response to the coronavirus epidemic, which was only a matter of time, has faded.

From the party, Adams is battling businessman Andrew Yang, and Kathryn Garcia, a former head of sanitation in a city whose campaign seems to be doing well. They have all made various changes to improve the police force, from the best education to the age of enrollment and the imposition of severe penalties for the bad guys. However, he continued to support the police with his role in the city, and declined calls for a reduction in their assets.

The situation is deplorable. The city is on the verge of abandoning politics by assuming legal recognition in all cases of life

“Nothing works in our city without public safety, and for public safety we need police,” Yang announced last month’s shooting of a four-year-old girl in Times Square.

Meanwhile, Garcia denied that “repatriation” was not necessary, saying: “Black life is empty, the ship…. But we still need safe police.”

To their left is Maya Wiley, former mayor Bill de Blasio’s lawyer, who has promised to seize $ 1bn from $ 6bn of $ 6bn and transfer it to labor services. He has won several recent awards, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bronx Congresswoman and progressive star.

“Here’s the real thing – we’re hiring the police to do humanitarian work,” he said Wednesday night in a final debate that included questions about public safety.

Jumaane Williams, a New York City attorney general, said she was forced to support her campaign after making sure voters were given the wrong choice: between more police officers or more violence. “The police alone cannot – and have never been – provide public protection,” Williams said.

Another developer, Dianne Morales, a former school principal, wants to take $ 3bn from the police department and has even gone so far as to say that the police are making the city a dangerous place.

In a free-spirited city, the winner of the second election on Tuesday took the November election and oversees America’s largest city at a time of crisis, as it tries to recover from a plague that has killed more than 33,000 people and disrupted trade and culture.

Whoever wins, some researchers and observers think that political winds have moved security.

“The pendulum has swung at the masses, and I think now they are back,” said Richard Aborn, president of the Citizens Crime Commission, a non-partisan political organization that promotes good policing. “I think the financial system was doing well in the short period of time it did because crime was so low.”

Alexander Reichl, a professor at CUNY Queens College, acknowledged that the growing crime rate “changed” the mayor’s speed, saying: “It has calmed the wind several times.”

Similar conflicts are raging in some US cities that are also plagued by crime. However, as Reichl pointed out, it was a special issue for New York because of the “long shadow of the 1970s and the fear that the city was not under control”.

According to NYPD figures, shooting incidents are up 64% this year to the second week of June compared to the same period last year, when the figure was raised. For 12 months, the shooting has doubled compared to the previous 12 months. The murder rate is 13% and it is said that hate crimes increased by 117%.

The unnamed numbers and fears caused by reports of elderly Asian women being beaten on the streets and the destruction of areas where graffiti and other lawlessness are rampant.

“Things are very bad. The city is on the verge of abandoning politics by doing whatever it takes to please the people, be it small insects, drug dealers, drug dealers in the corner, all of whom are disturbed in the hearts of the homeless, “said William Bratton.

Bratton led the police department under the leadership of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, as low-cost violence set the stage for tree prices and the restoration of New York’s reputation as “America’s largest city”.

Bratton returned in 2014 during the first three years of De Blasio’s tenure. Crime continued to escalate as they reduced the “stop and frisk” tactics that sowed so much anger in black and Spanish groups during Bloomberg’s tenure.

Bratton criticized changes in the lawsuits filed by city politicians and governments – in addition to the reduction of bail bills in most cases – over the resumption. He also lamented how the May 2019 murder of Floyd by Minneapolis police, and so on, “disrupted” the trust of the tribal people.

“Whoever is going to be elected mayor, it should be a priority because it seems to be getting worse before it gets better,” he said.

For Williams, a spokeswoman for the group, the review underscores the role of the epidemic, as well as the economic and social turmoil that has taken place and the closure of the courts. For those who advocate for greater change, he said the Minneapolis Police Department had already made arrangements for Floyd’s assassination.

“We have to think about public safety in dangerous ways because we have been allowing the police to take on all this responsibility and it is not working,” he said.

Adams’ political history begins with police violence: a teenager growing up in Queens claims he and his brother were beaten in the basement by two white police officers. This, he says, put him in a legal position to change from the inside out.

He retired as a captain after working for 22 years when he formed the 100 Blacks in Law Enforcing Who Care team to address racism in the community and forge better relationships with black people.

The Adams campaign has highlighted warts, particularly in terms of how they have funded past funding and, more recently, has questioned whether they actually live in New Jersey. (She is not, she insists.) She also has a strange habit of talking to a third person.

But his reputation as a pragmatist and distractionist has encouraged many businesses in the city. He was also well-established in the revolutionary movement. A few hours after the shooting of Times Square, he arranged a press conference nearby.

“Gun violence,” he responded this week when asked what he would be the first candidate to do as elected mayor. “You are looking repeatedly at all parts of our city.” He described the people as “human beings” but also connected with the city’s economic recovery: “No tourists will arrive in this city when a three-year-old boy is shot dead in Times Square.”

Among other things, Adams wants to recruit more officers and reduce the number of officers to send more police officers to neighboring areas. Opponents, however, want to reopen the “crime-fighting groups”, which were redesigned last year, to deal with them. gun crime. He has refused to accept “stop-and-frisk”, as long as it is used properly, a point that Wiley has repeatedly thrown at him.

“They know how to run the business abroad and the opportunity they have to reform is to understand what can happen, and they will have the opportunity to reject the idea of ​​what might not happen,” said the Aborn Citizens Crime Commission.

But Victoria Davis, whose brother, Delrawn Small, was shot and killed by a police officer who was not working in New York City in 2016 after a street rage, could not believe it. Davis accused Adams of “playing with fear” and ridiculed him as a “go-getter [candidate] white people who want to progress, but do not know how ”.

To the south of the Bronx, New York City’s worst-hit area, Ed Garcia Conde, a long-time blogger and blogger, noticed that neighbors were splitting up.

“You have an old generation that wants to ‘send troops’ and do some of the more violent gunfire and then you have young people who want to ‘bring back’ the police,” said Garcia Conde. “It will be up to the voter.”