biggest competitors is maya wiley, recently endorsed by alexandria ocasio cortez. she wants to reallocate a sum of the police department budget to social services. people would call that defunding the police. but it is just details on how to reallocate the money. how are voters reacting to the proposals? it depends which voters you are talking to. i think there is a very real conversation thing. i believe that maya wiley and eric adams firmly believe what they are saying to the electorate that their method for tackling crime is the best. and there is a conversation among democrats i think across the country about what is the best way to tackle gun violence. is it some combination of more aggressive policing, precision policing, plus the groups like
point? definitely. eric adams is a former n.y.p.d. captain and state senator from brooklyn. he built a reputation as a police reformer in the 90s, and someone who spoke out against the excesses of the giuliani administration, and his police department. but he is now taking a tacks that seen tack that is seen as conservative among democrats when it comes to tackling crime. he is not talking about defunding the police although that is a broad term. he s someone who wants to use policing to tackle the gun crime problem that we have. all the candidates do to a certain extent, but he has so much credibility on this because of his backgrounds as a former police officer. i know that one of the adams
what will we do right now to stop 10-year-old boys being shot, 3-year-old children being shot. we need to go after guns. illegal handguns are really just proliferating our streets. saturating our streets. we need to focus on gang violence. i speak with gang leaders to try to talk them out. those who refuse to put down their guns and stop the violence, we need to go after them. and then we must change the ecosystem of public safety. police may have a role. but there are other components to that. i m going to put in place a plainclothes anti-gun unit with precision policing, to identify the shooters. i want to let people know what we re dealing with here in new york city. and there are other major cities dealing with it as well. 3 out of 4 serious crimes in brooklyn are going unsolved. and you are the brooklyn borough
from being shot and rockaway? 3-year-old children being shot in times square. we need to go after guns. illegal handguns are really just proliferating our streets, saturating our streets. we must focus on gang violence. i speak with gang leaders to try to talk them out. but those who refuse to put down their guns and stop the violence. we have to go after them. and then, we must change the ecosystem of public safety. police may have a role. but there are other components to that, and that s the approach i m going to take. i m going to put in place a plain-clothes anti-gun unit with precision policing so we can identify those known shooters. let s i just want to let people know around the country what we are dealing with here, in new york city. and there are other, major cities dealing with it, as well. three out of four serious crimes in brooklyn are going unsolved, right now, according to nypd s latest report. that is and you are the brooklyn borough president.
and, you know, of course it remains to be seen and once the whole impeachment fight really heats up, what happens there. vera, really interesting article. time magazine there. vera, thank you so much. breaking overnight, hundreds of people went to the streets of brooklyn protesting what they say is the continuous brutality effort by the new york police department. according to cnn afill wabc, the protest is in response to a video on social media showing nypd officers fighting with teens at a subway station. the nypd put out this statement. the nypd does not interfere with constitutionally protected activities and works to ensure public safety as new yorkers exercise their first amendment rights. over the last five years, the nypd has focused on precision policing, anti gun and antiviolent strategies have allowed our officers to build stronger relationships with the community and drive crime down