Mayor Erik Adams didn't know how corruptwas at the heart of Big Apple beforetook office. Just "how bad is this place?"
In an exclusive interview last week when Adams took the subway for more than three hours overnight, a former NYPD traffic police officer said"deploying resources" with a New Yorker. He said he was surprised at his failure. Edgeas serious crimes surge this year by nearly 40%.
"Let me tell you something: when I started looking into this, I was shocked at how bad this place was," he said of the city. Adams, who campaigned with the promise ofto return the
orderto an increasingly lawless Gotham, was on the scale when he began to review operations in the city after sworn in after midnight. Said it fell. New Year's Day.
"Probably the third, third or fourth week of January. I spent a lot of time in the office," he said.
"And I peel off the layers And it started to reveal to me the way we had this good shell, but there's a bad one underneath. "
NYPD" as an example. Using it, he said, "We are not taking advantage of this wonderful institution and all our skills."
Adams also blew up the former mayor by trying to build a "legacy" focusing on a single "pet project" and "pre-kindergarten" on his immediateshot. Checked the list containing "predecessor, Bill de Blasio.
"As you know, they hold this one thing," he says.
"That's why I'm saying when people try to say,'OK, Eric, what's your one or two thing you know?'" : To fix this confusion.
In 2021, the final year of De Blasio's term, the city had more than 22,000 felony assaults, a levelnot seen a few years ago, a major in almost all categories. Crimehas increased. First time since 2001.
The number of murders has reached 486, the highest since 515committed in 2011
Last year's headline-grabbing incident included a shocking and provocativehatch attackinside an ATM lobby in Manhattan's financial district. Was there. Shooting at Times Squareand trampling a 10-year-old girl and a 5-year-old brother when a masked gunmanfireson the Bronx sidewalk.
This year, shootings were down almost 12% and murders were down 13% compared to the same period last year.
However, robbery has increased by nearly 40%, while large-scale theft and car theft have increased by 50% and 48%, respectively.
And as the city struggles to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, transportation system crime has increased by a staggering 54%.
Adams acknowledged his frustration with implementing his first major initiative. It's about cracking down onviolations of the rules on the subway and stopping homeless people from living in stations and trains.
The move was pushed into a truck
following the shocking murder of Michelle Goh, 40, who lives in the Upper West Side.
A homeless man with a history of mental illness, Martial Simon, 61, was charged with murder. After
first defending the overall safety of thetransit system, Adams
, which was later considered unsuitable for the trial. 127} I was forced to admit that the rider "doesn't feel safe"and added: I don't feel like that when I get on the train.
Hizzoner has created a Google Docs that the city hall can share, "installed the system", and patrols the subway to see the camps of homeless people. A police officer said, "A" document "for the Homeless Service Bureau to follow up on it within 7 days.
But when Adams found the camp, he said, "I'll answer the phone and look at the document. This camp isn't here."
A few days later, Adams returned to the station and asked the police officer, "Did you log in to this camp?" They replied, "We weren't told we were supposed to log in to it."
"It showed that we weren't inspecting the system. I did, "he said.
After talking to the local school district commander, Adams, who did not appoint a New York Police Department employee, said the document is now being used as intended.
"It was only three or four weeks later that I actually started seeing how the team would act to actually accomplish the mission," he said.
