Adams Spends First Weekend as Mayor Promising Law and Order – Without Brutality
Mayor Eric Adams spent his first 48 hours in office straddling the same line he did during his campaign: Promising law and order, particularly through the restoration of a controversial anti-crime unit, while also protecting civil liberties.
Themes of public safety and policing defined the mayor’s first public events. On Saturday, he visited a wounded NYPD officer as well as the police precinct where he was beaten as a teenager. And in a serendipitous moment while surrounded by press, he even called 911 to report a fight in progress while waiting for the subway to go to his first day of work.
“Justice and public safety go together,” Adams said on Sunday after meeting with relatives of victims of violence in Harlem. “And I don’t subscribe to the belief of some that we can only have justice and not public safety. We will have them both. Our police officers will be responsible, they will understand how to properly police our city. But we will also send a loud and clear message: You will not bring violence to this city.”
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