New York City Mayor Eric Adams said he considering Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot's re-election loss a 'warning sign for the country' on addressing public safety concerns.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot was defeated in last week's primary election. New York City Mayor Eric Adams says her loss should be a warning on public safety.for him in New York, Adams countered,"To the contrary, I think is a warning sign for the country."
"You know the difference between a comment like that and what I say -- I listen to Americans in New York. The polls were clear. New Yorkers felt unsafe, and the numbers show that they were unsafe," Adams said."Now, if we want to ignore what the everyday public stated, then that's up to them. I'm on the subways. I walk the streets. I speak to everyday, working-class people.
"And they were concerned about safety. We zeroed in on that unprecedented historic numbers of felony arrests, removal of guns on our streets, close in homicide cases. We have a recidivism problem in New York, and far too many people, about 2000 people who are repeatedly… catch, release, repeat in crimes. If we don't take them off our streets, they're going to continue to prey on innocent people.
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