New York: Gun violence has shaken the first three weeks of Eric Adams’s office as the New York Mayor, accumulates the pressure on the former police to fulfill his promise to improve public safety in the largest city in America.
The shooting in the Harlem Friday environment left one police officer and another in critical condition.
It is the latest flash point of the rules of the Democratic Mayor, where he has not presented a comprehensive plan to control the crime he has confiscated.
“This is our city for murderers,” said Adams, a retired police captain, on Friday night at Harlem Hospital, where officers – who have responded to domestic disorders – were taken after the incident.
The recent shooting also included a surprising incident where a 11-month-old girl was hit on the cheek by a lost bullet in Bronx when she was in a car parked with her mother.
They were seen as part of a wider trend of weapons violence driven by firearms accessibility, against the background of the Victim of Social and Economy Pandemic Covid-19.
And they are testing the new Tough-On-Crime campaign message, preparing a showdown potential with the left side of his party on police funds and a crime reduction strategy.
On Friday Adams urged the federal action on the control of weapons while calling for New York players to work with police to stem violence.
“No matter how painful this moment is, don’t give up on these people in this city,” he said.
“Twitter and Instagram and Social Media – they are not the people you protect,” he continued with a clear reprimand of his left criticism, many of which were online vocals and had been pushed for the “Defund” of The New York Police Department, the largest nation .
Now the call might come to the head when Adams, the police position has long had a New York person on the left, preparing to negotiate a new city budget.
He said this week he would consider freeing the police, with a budget of exceeding $ 5 billion, from cost cutting steps throughout the city.
Politicians who use “police defund” as a rally crying seemed impossible to give Adams, who have worsened progressively for problems including distance learning, every concession.
Kristin Richardson Jordan, member of the Left City Council, won the Harlem district on the “Defund” platform, which advocated for policy replacements with alternative public safety systems.
He expressed the sadness of the killing of the police officer on Friday, but added: “Obviously, the death of police officers is not what removal.
Removal is the end of violence at all.” Police last year recorded 488 murders in the city of nine million people, up 4.3 percent from 2020 – even though Jeffrey Puntung, Director of the Research and Evaluation Center at John Jay College of Crident Hakim, showed that 25 years ago the number of homicides in New York is Four times what looks today.
While he said he did not agree with the idea of ”opposing the police,” he also told AFP “more police funds were not the right response.” “How is the resource used? What is the end? What is the strategy?” Butts said.
“The foundation of our approach must be the economic, health and health welfare welfare, which is a much wider conversation of public policy.” Adriano Espalatlat, a member of the Congress whose district included Harlem and part of Bronx, said Saturday “The federal government must play an important role” in stemming violence, citing the need for legislation and accountability of a stronger producer gun.
Ken Sherrill, a professor of emeritus political science at Hunter College, expressed a surprise that Adams had not launched his pitch to handle crime – but said this was a moment to “form public opinion.” “This handed over the Mayor of a great opportunity and if he didn’t catch him, I’m sure he would regret it,” Sherrill told AFP.
On Saturday, Adams told reporters that he placed “the last touch” in unscheduled speeches that would present a detailed vision of public safety.
“We need a shared and organized effort and you will see how we will achieve it when we give the overall blueprint for safety,” Adams said.
The key is planned to “overcome the flow of weapons.” Without it, he said, “We are wasting time.”
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