“More than anybody since Giuliani, he will be judged by how well he does with [bringing down crime],” Joseph Viteritti, a professor at Hunter College, says about Mayor Adams. “Because he practically wore his police uniform when he was campaigning.”
Mayor Eric Adams at a prayer vigil in the Bedford Park section of the Bronx.On Friday evening, Mayor Eric Adams stood at the corner of East 198th Street and Valentine Avenue in the Bedford Park section of the Bronx, where days ago a baby girl had been shot in the face by stray gunfire. It was the third vigil the mayor had attended in the span of a week, beginning with one in Times Square for a womanUnderneath the bill of an NYPD baseball cap, the mayor’s face looked careworn.
“More than anybody since Giuliani, he will be judged by how well he does with [bringing down crime],” Joseph Viteritti, a public policy professor at Hunter College, said of Adams. “Because he practically wore his police uniform when he was campaigning.” “If you really want to improve public safety and the quality of life, you have to be fully committed to returning to full employment as soon as possible,” said James Parrott, an economist with the Center for New York City Affairs at the New School.
Hate crimes are also up, especially among Asian Americans. Although police have said there were no signs that Michelle Alyssa Go, the woman pushed to her death on the subway last Saturday, was targeted because of her ethnicity, the attack rattled the Asian American community. In 2021, gun arrests citywide were up 6% over the prior year and 34% compared to 2019, according to crime figures. However, shootings have soared in other major U.S. cities, suggesting a national trend related to the pandemic.
Mayors have generally responded to crime by increasing police. During the early 1990s, David Dinkins, the city’s first Black mayor, secured additional funding from Albany to increase the city’s NYPD ranks to reduce crime. The move was later credited with initiating a decline in the crime rate. Crime levels plummeted under Giuliani, a two-term mayor who oversaw a crackdown on low-level offenses as well as the development of CompStat, a database system that tracks crime statistics trends.
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