NYC Mayor Eric Adams, a former New York Police Department captain who was also assaulted by police as a teenager, said that police departments must concern themselves with the 'basic aptitude' of police officers and recruits, in addition to training.
"You are trained with the basic needs of a law enforcement officer, and everyone should have those basic needs," Adams said."... We sometimes believe just because a person is a police officer, that they could do every job within law enforcement. But then there are those that do not have the basic aptitude discipline in needs. That's what we saw on full display during the assault in Memphis. They don't have the basic aptitude.
"The only place that we don't go into communities and say we must bring our privacy is law enforcement," Adams said."We say just the opposite." Adams said there's an"anti-police" campaign discouraging young people from being a"sellout" and joining law enforcement. That has to change, he said. "We should have every sorority, fraternity, every church, every civil civic group, NAACP — let's find our best and our brightest and say public protection is crucial to our communities, and it must be done right," Adams said."So we should be part of the campaign of the policing we want it to look like.
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