Updated
04/06/2021 04:45 PM EDT
2021-04-06T04:45-0400
As one mayoral candidateattended the nationally televised trial about police misconduct in Minneapolis today, another stayed in town to roll out a plan for boosting the NYPD amid a spike in gun violence.
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, who retired as an NYPD captain in 2006 to run for the state Senate, said his opponents are avoiding a discussion of the increase in crime across the five boroughs something voters have been citing as a concern in recent polls. He lamented the deafening silence from his Democratic rivals in the race to succeed outgoing Mayor Bill de Blasio as he stood outside Bronx Supreme Court earlier today. (One of candidate