NEW YORK — (NEW YORK) -- For the first time in history, Black mayors are leading America's four largest cities.
ABC News' Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl recently sat down with three of them -- New York City Mayor Eric Adams, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner -- in Washington, D.C., on the sidelines of the annual gathering of the countries' mayors.
"In Los Angeles, without a doubt, it's homelessness," Bass said."But it's the intersection of income inequality and also public safety. And because income inequality is so severe in Los Angeles, the most extreme manifestation of that is 47,000 people [sleeping] on the streets in tents, every night, in the city."
"You called defunding the police 'probably one of the worst slogans ever' -- why did you say that?" Karl asked. "This should not happen to any city in America -- El Paso, Houston, Chicago, New York, Washington," he said."This is a national problem and our national government, Congress and the White House must do a long-term, comprehensive immigration policy. But the White House must deal with the immediate emergency we have now."
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