Mayor Adams is doubling and tripling down on public safety as his first and most pressing task. But he needs to focus more on substance than show, writes errollouis
Photo: John Nacion/SOPA Images/Shutterstock Mayor Eric Adams, although surrounded by an attentive entourage of security personnel and a few aides, seemed a determined but isolated figure as he boarded a flight to Chicago on Friday to talk about crime and law enforcement with his Windy City counterpart, Lori Lightfoot.
It seems clear, for instance, that quelling the rising tide of disorder in the subways — which have reached the highest levels of assault and homicide in 25 years — is not simply a matter of enforcing the MTA’s rules of conduct, which prohibit jumping the turnstile, sleeping on subway cars, or loitering in a station for more than an hour.
“While I’ve been very supportive of the mayor and his public safety initiatives, I cannot support this one. It creates significant safety risks for the Chiefs and public,” Bratton said on Twitter. “Transit policing, like that of housing developments, requires significant safety training.
But Rikers Island, the place where New York sends people to wait their day in court, has tumbled beyond crisis to a state of near-collapse.
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