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Home Front: Politix

On crime, Eric Adams remains head and shoulders above the mayoral pack

2021-05-22

[NYPOST] New York City’s crime wave is getting worse each day and night. Wednesday night alone, two people were killed and at least nine others injured, as blood-soaked violence stretched across the city. Seven of the injured were hit by gunfire, including an 8-year-old boy; two were stabbed and two others slashed in the subway.

Not to mention the elderly woman assaulted while leaving a bus.

As the body count rises, Eric Adams

... currently the Brooklyn Borough president, which gives him useful experience...

remains the only mayoral candidate to make fighting crime and restoring public safety central themes of his campaign. Most of the rest dodge — or insist that policing isn’t the answer.

His chief rival, Andrew Yang

...Former 2020 Democratic presidential candidate. Unlike most of the other Dem 2020 candidates, he actually did things besides politix in his adult life, which made him political poison. He worked in startups and early-stage growth companies as a founder or executive from 2000 to 2009. After he founded Venture for America, the Obama administration selected him in 2012 as a Champion of Change and in 2015 as a Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship. His signature campaign policy is what he calls the Freedom Dividend, a form of Universal Basic Income for every American over 18. Yang believes UBI is a necessary response to the rapid development of automation that is leading to workforce challenges. The other two central elements of Yang's platform are Medicare for All and Human-Centered Capitalism....
, is looking completely clueless: On Thursday, he flubbed responses to questions about the state’s repeal of 50a, a law that shielded police disciplinary records from the public, and on the city’s overbroad law criminalizing not just chokeholds but many other police restraints. He needed a handler to whisper the answers to him.

The victims of this violence are predominantly poor and minority. They and their survivors don’t need lefties like Scott Stringer or Maya Wiley droning on about root causes without giving any solutions to the mayhem now.

All New Yorkers deserve to be safe in their homes and in public. Eric Adams gets that. He knows that New York City’s economic comeback begins with public safety and aims to target criminals, not all young men — and to help potential gangbangers make different and better choices.

Adams is by far the best bet not only to work for safe streets, but to deliver them.

Posted by:Fred

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