{"id":314614,"date":"2021-08-03T02:15:29","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T23:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/a-public-safety-game-plan-for-eric-adams\/"},"modified":"2021-08-03T02:15:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T23:15:29","slug":"a-public-safety-game-plan-for-eric-adams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-public-safety-game-plan-for-eric-adams\/","title":{"rendered":"#A public-safety game plan for Eric Adams"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#A public-safety game<\/a> plan for Eric Adams<\/strong>”
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Brooklyn Borough President and former NYPD captain Eric Adams daringly ran on a law-and-order mayoral platform, earning the Democratic nod in a field populated with progressives bent on defunding the police. Once he clinches City Hall, he needs to deliver on his promise of safety \u2014 and that means listening to law enforcers.<\/p>\n

Adams acknowledges what some so stubbornly resist: Demonizing cops and hamstringing their public-safety efforts allow criminality to flourish. Shootings and homicides are on the rise in cities across the \u00adnation. Recruitment and retention of officers have become difficult for departments already forced to deal with budgets slashed by the #Defund movement.<\/p>\n

The NYPD is experiencing painful staffing shortfalls, as cops are retiring in droves. The Post reported in April that \u201cmore than 5,300 NYPD uniformed officers retired or put in their papers to leave in 2020 \u2014 a 75 percent spike from the year before.\u201d A wider exodus would break the department.<\/p>\n

If Adams wants to make good on his campaign promises and emerge as the historic leader who staved off a return of the city\u2019s bad old days, he needs to take the following steps:<\/p>\n

1) Begin by publicly defending the honorable policing profession. Sane people \u00adunderstand this to mean support for good cops and holding accountable the minuscule share of officers who tarnish the badge. The mayor should use the bully pulpit City Hall affords to call out the current trends of harassment, taunting, baiting and targeting police, often used to create viral video clips by nauseating clout-chasers. Adams might also share his personal experience of being part of the miraculous, NYPD-led effort of the 1990s that once allowed Gotham to stake its claim as nation\u2019s \u201csafest big city.\u201d<\/p>\n

2) Untie cops\u2019 hands. Under the guise of criminal-justice reform, activists have pressured weak-kneed politicians into implementing unreasonable restrictions that make an already dangerous profession even more dangerous.<\/p>\n

Violent confrontations are sometimes inevitable when cops confront desperate, non-compliant subjects. But when police are prohibited from employing certain control holds or restraining techniques, the balance is dangerously tilted against them \u2014 and, therefore, against public safety.<\/p>\n

3) Challenge the state Legislature on its dangerous bail and discovery \u201creforms.\u201d New York will become safer when judges are once more afforded discretion to jail \u00adviolent, recidivist \u00ad offenders pending trial.<\/p>\n

New York state\u2019s discovery \u201creforms,\u201d meanwhile, are downright insane. Publicizing information related to witnesses, informants and undercover officers, while disposing of the anonymity related to grand-jury witness protections, is dangerous. It is having a crippling effect on the criminal-justice system.<\/p>\n

4) Fund the police. Even leftist city councils like the ones in Minneapolis and Seattle have been forced to reverse course after pledging to dismantle their police budgets. #DefundPolice is a slogan, not a solution, and it\u2019s a slogan even lefties are now running away from.<\/p>\n

Mayor de Blasio is learning that painful lesson now and has begun to walk back support for police budget cuts. The irony is lost on no one when local defund advocates implement cuts and then are shamefully forced to app<\/a>eal for state and federal assistance to combat the crime surge.<\/p>\n

America\u2019s safest big city needs a well-funded police force.<\/p>\n

Thus far, New York City\u2019s mayor-in-waiting has struck all the right chords with his pro-cop and anti-crime campaign. If, as expected, he moves into Gracie Mansion following inauguration on Jan. 1, will Eric Adams make good on his commitment to public safety? Politics often requires delicate needle-threading: to seek compromises and balance competing equities. Yet, the restoration of law and order in NYC \u2014 for residents, commuters and tourists alike \u2014 must be the new mayor\u2019s priority No. 1.<\/p>\n

James A. Gagliano is a retired FBI supervisory special agent. Jason C. Johnson, a former deputy commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department, is president of the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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