Mayor Adams on crime in NYC: 'We are really proactive'

Mayor Eric Adams says his administration is cracking down on illegal scooters and guns. Adams says that the perception of crime in the city has been inflated by the media playing on the psyche of New Yorkers.

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[pulaski]

I walk the streets every day and everything coming out of his mouth is bull.

[rightlyso]

Why hasn't Adams apologized for his racist rant against that elderly woman?

[Stuffnsuch]

The city is humming and the homeless are pissing and yelling

[lesliechow]

under Guiliani and Bloomberg there was a cop on every corner, under deblasio and adams there's a mentally ill homeless guy on every corner, usually waving a makeshift weapon

[dealwolfstriked]

The garbage blowing in the wind is my indicator of a city about to collapse.I hope this is not true! Stay Strong NY

[danielroberts]

New York elected this mental case. They deserve him.

[Gustafson]

Fun fact. It's ALWAYS the SAME PEOPLE doing 100% of senseless crimes.

[JoshSmith]

A losing coach being proud of his losing record.

[JPAGH]

Manhattan, Upper West Side. Shoplifting in NYC is so bad supermarkets are locking up, and installing anti-theft devices on $6 ice cream: ‘This is the age we live in now’.

High rates of retail theft this year have prompted store owners to keep even low-priced items — ranging from dish soap to cans of tuna — in locked cabinets that require customers to ring a bell.

Shopkeepers are screaming as overall shoplifting rates soar citywide — with 13, 738 retail thefts reported in the first quarter of 2023, the most recent available NYPD data.

By contrast, an average of just 8, 750 retail thefts were reported quarterly in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic struck the city, according to the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

The shoplifting crisis was fueled in part by the state’s controversial 2019 bail reform law, which requires judges to cut loose criminals who commit misdemeanors and some nonviolent felonies, critics say.

New York Post, June 30, 2023

[xxxx]

.( PROVERBS ) 29 : 12 .. "If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked".

[dannybx]

It's Adams fault the city has submerged down below the ground.

[wileecoyote]

"Pick up morning papers"
Absolutely way out of touch

[kingnoire]

All you guys do is arrest them and let them go..and then go take pictures at parties..worst mayor ever

[Triple]

This guy enjoys changing the narrative!!!!

[batmanlove]

Since day one this mayor has done absolutely nothing. And another thing that female commissioner that quit she has done absolutely nothing at all. All you hear is the same story with different wording.

[jayborn]

Eric Adams knows his area a 5 finger discount is not a crime

[ronaldgundrum]

Black on Black Criminal activity in New York City keep on doing the same illegal process over and over.

[sweendog]

Liers always patt themselves on the back

[angeloferroni]

They made arrests but did anyone go to jail?

[Linzo]

Normally a 3 minute errand a half block away from my apt on the UES to Duane Reade can take me sometimes 25 minutes or more since everything is locked up. To some 25 minutes may mean "nothing" - but to me, it's a noticable change.