NYC Mayor Eric Adams Faces Anti-Police Radicals

In the wake of the 2020 riots and amid an overall surge in violent crime, law and order could be making a comeback. An appreciation for security recently motivated voters in Minneapolis to reject a proposal to replace their police department with a “Department of Public Safety.” The same appreciation also helps explain the election of Eric Adams, a black retired NYPD captain, as mayor of New York City.

Adams’s inauguration is set for January 1, 2022. But for New York City, it can’t come too soon for him to deliver on his promises. The Big Apple is in desperate need of cleaning up. Last year, there was a 97 percent increase in shootings and a 45 percent increase in murders. The youngest victim, a one-year-old, was killed in his stroller by a stray bullet in Brooklyn. Cops have reported feeling “demoralized.” And it’s no wonder. Caving under political pressure from Democratic radicals, soon-to-be-former mayor Bill de Blasio cut the NYPD budget by $1 billion.

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Madeleine Kearns

Madeleine Kearns is a former staff writer at National Review.

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In the wake of the 2020 riots and amid an overall surge in violent crime, law and order could be making a comeback. An appreciation for security recently motivated voters in Minneapolis to reject a proposal to replace their police department with a “Department of Public Safety.” The same appreciation also helps explain the election of Eric Adams, a black retired NYPD captain, as mayor of New York City.

Adams’s inauguration is set for January 1, 2022. But for New York City, it can’t come too soon for him to deliver on his promises. The Big Apple is in desperate need of cleaning up. Last year, there was a 97 percent increase in shootings and a 45 percent increase in murders. The youngest victim, a one-year-old, was killed in his stroller by a stray bullet in Brooklyn. Cops have reported feeling “demoralized.” And it’s no wonder. Caving under political pressure from Democratic radicals, soon-to-be-former mayor Bill de Blasio cut the NYPD budget by $1 billion.