pieces of the plot are coming together. but there is so much more that we need to uncover. so many more questions that we need to answer. and we need answers, too, right? i have said it before. our democracy demands that we hold accountable the people who tried to destroy it, and are trying to destroy it, quite frankly. that as there is no denying that crime is surging in cities all across this country. some big cities seeing more homicides in 2020 or 2021 than any other year on record. americans are demanding action to keep our streets safe. and today, president joe biden coming here to new york new york city with some tough talk on gun violence. calling for $300 million for local police departments. a national ghost gun enforcement initiative. and gun laws hike universal background checks. the president meeting with the new mayor of new york city, eric adams, former nypd captain.
not have to imagine what would happen with no police because they have been watching it unfold in real time. over the past two years, the city has lost almost a third of its police officers and crime has exploded, so this measure to defund and dismantle the police was given a bold kick in the teeth, with 56% of voters rejecting it. w not only was the measure itself defeated, four of the city council members supported the effort were also voted out. progressive congress home in ilhan omar, a huge advocate of this proposal, might consider herself lucky that she wasn t on aa ballot yesterday. and remember, not only would this measure have replaced the police department, it would have put the city council in charge of public safety. meantime, the new mayor ofan new york, eric adams, a former nypd captain, says his public safety priorities will include a fair share of giveis and take. for example, he plans to reinstate the disbanded plainclothes police unit and in turn put them in charge of
city has lost almost a third of its police officers and crime has exploded, so this measure to defund and dismantle the police was given a bold kick in the teeth, with 56% of voters rejecting it. not only was the measure itself defeated, four of the city council members supported the effort were also voted out. progressive congress home in ilhan omar, a huge advocate of this proposal, might consider herself lucky that she wasn t on a ballot yesterday. and remember, not only would this measure have replaced the police department, it would have put the city council in charge of public safety. meantime, the new mayor of new york, eric adams, a former nypd captain, says his public safety priorities will include a fair share of give and take. for example, he plans to reinstate the disbanded plainclothes police unit and in turn put them in charge of getting rid of gangs, guns, and hard drugs. adams says new york has become a place where lawlessness is the
continues to be donald trump s party and he is setting the parameters for it. julie pace, you get the last word. i think there s widespread agreement among most that the phrase defund the police was the most toxic in modern day politics. of course, that toxicity washes up on one party and one alone. joe biden anxious to rid his party of that label, and along comes a guy like eric adams, former nypd captain, former republican for that matter, the apparent next mayor of the city of new york. do we expect to see more events like this and perhaps more appearances by eric adams? i think that eric adams is exactly the kind of democrat that joe biden wants by his side when he is talking about crime. you know, when you talk to democrats coming out of the november election, particularly moderates who were in suburban swing districts, they will argue
killing was completely based on untruths. jesse: the media is not admitting that the defund the police has backfired. here in new york, the mayoral race, the guy who was way ahead, the black democrat running on restoring law and order in new york city and he s ahead. geraldo: eric adams. he is a great guy. i made a couple speeches on his behalf. former nypd captain. all about law and order. going back to maya wiley on the private police force, it is due as i say, not as i do and that s pretty typical but i want to say something a little bit bigger. black lives matter is the most utterly failed movement in recent times. you have a movement that pretends to care about black lives when in fact, as you demonstrated very graphically at the top of the show, jesse, the black life they care about is the one taken by the cop. if a cop is not involved, they are not involved. and the vast majority of the