eric adams, a former police officer himself, is he right? is he the right person for this moment? this was certainly the promise of his election campaign, and particularly on the issue of seeing the salience of that issue to voters, but on being a central figure here, not only as a former police officer having those inroads with more moderate communities, but also someone who vocally talked about police reform telling communities that, hey, we re going to be open to pushing police departments in the direction that we saw coming from last summer. he thinks he s uniquely positioned on these issues. the question is whether progressives and others will invest the time to work with him. when i was profiling eric adams last summer, it was the police department who were some of his most vocal critics because they thought some of the rhetoric from his time on the force was not acceptable. he s going to have to walk a tight line here, but this is the one he wanted.