{"id":418648,"date":"2022-03-19T15:08:40","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T12:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/eric-adams-popularity-rests-on-success-of-nypd-anti-gun-unit\/"},"modified":"2022-03-19T15:08:40","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T12:08:40","slug":"eric-adams-popularity-rests-on-success-of-nypd-anti-gun-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/eric-adams-popularity-rests-on-success-of-nypd-anti-gun-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"#Eric Adams\u2019 popularity rests on success of NYPD anti-gun unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a414944da813\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a414944da813\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/eric-adams-popularity-rests-on-success-of-nypd-anti-gun-unit\/#%E2%80%9CEric_Adams_popularity_rests_on_success_of_NYPD_anti-gun_unit%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Eric Adams\u2019 popularity rests on success of NYPD anti-gun unit&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CEric_Adams_popularity_rests_on_success_of_NYPD_anti-gun_unit%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Eric Adams\u2019 popularity rests on success of NYPD anti-gun unit&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/steve-cuozzo.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Steve Cuozzo\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/steve-cuozzo.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/steve-cuozzo.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>In his first 100 days, Mayor Eric Adams is enjoying a 61 percent <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roval rating among New Yorkers. His passion for the city and enthusiasm\u00a0for the job have already blown away the\u00a0\u201ctale of two cities\u201d sophistry of his\u00a0identity politics-peddling predecessor, Bill de Blasio.<\/p>\n<p>Adams sends mostly the right signals. Signals matter \u2014 a lot. But so does substance. Nobody could expect an overnight reversal of city fortunes in his first months on the job.\u00a0He waded into a twin cyclone of the Omicron peak and bloody gunplay that left five cops dead or wounded, neither of which can be pinned on him. (Murders through March 13 fell from 82 to 76 over the same period in 2021 but rape, robbery, felony assault, burglary and grand larceny all rose by double-digit percentages).<\/p>\n<p>But for all his upbeat urgings to New Yorkers to get back to work that\u00a0make him sound more like a red-state governor than the leader of the woke Big Apple, the mayor has been all over the map on crucial issues and goofy ones, too. He wasn\u2019t elected to turn our kids into vegans or make <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/leaderpost.com\/cannabis-news\/nyc-mayor-sees-cannabis-playing-a-role-in-citys-post-covid-recovery\/wcm\/161f9f00-1f92-48e4-b10f-231d0390938a\/amp\/\">marijuana\u00a0a growth industry<\/a>. Nor did his jaunt to Miami last weekend for a cryptocurrency conference suggest a laser focus on the city\u2019s ills. And he already sounds wobbly on crime \u2014 the one issue he should be fighting with all his might.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/eric-adams-speaks-during-vigil.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Mayor Eric Adams speaks during a vigil following the shooting of two police officers in Harlem in January.\" class=\"wp-image-21564266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/eric-adams-speaks-during-vigil.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/eric-adams-speaks-during-vigil.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/eric-adams-speaks-during-vigil.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Mayor Eric Adams speaks during a vigil following the shooting of two police officers in Harlem in January.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Adams waters down his\u00a0every statement about cracking down on the homicidal \u201chomeless\u201d by emphasizing the need to get them help \u2014\u00a0a point on which we might well agree but <em>not<\/em>\u00a0the main point, which is to keep the law-abiding millions safe from the terror of a relative few crazies even if a crackdown cramps their style.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, to his credit, he complains about the turn-\u2019em-loose\u00a0bail \u201creform\u201d laws almost every day. He made a pilgrimage to Albany to lobby Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, who doesn\u2019t \u201cwant to incarcerate people because they are poor.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>After the meeting, he correctly said, \u201cI still have an obligation to keep the city safe\u201d even without help from Albany and, \u201cThat\u2019s why we\u2019re putting in place our anti-gun unit.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/simon-martial.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Adams needs to get tough on dangerous mentally ill homeless people like Simon Martial, who allegedly shoved a New Yorker in front of a subway train and killed her in January.\" class=\"wp-image-21564294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/simon-martial.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/simon-martial.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/simon-martial.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Adams needs to get tough on dangerous mentally ill homeless people like Simon Martial, who allegedly shoved a New Yorker in front of a subway train and killed her in January.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">J.C.Rice<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/moma-stabbing.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Violent crime has even spread to MoMA, where a man allegedly stabbed two employees this month.\" class=\"wp-image-21564314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/moma-stabbing.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/moma-stabbing.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/moma-stabbing.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Violent crime has even spread to MoMA, where a man allegedly stabbed two employees this month.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTER<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It took Adams nearly three months to get his anti-guns unit \u2014 now innocuously named Neighborhood Safety Teams \u2014 onto the streets. It must deal with restraints that earlier incarnations did not until it was dissolved by de Blasio over \u201cpolice brutality\u201d complaints in the\u00a0summer of 2020. Officers will no longer wear plainclothes but NYPD duds with name tags, and 168 cops will patrol the 28 areas where shootings have risen most sharply with 300 more officers soon to join them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Whether Adams remains popular rests entirely on the success of this unit. Even though partly emasculated and despite the no-bail law, the safety teams can get lots of guns off the street and instill fear among potential offenders. Safer streets will win Adams the political capital he needs to roll back the woke tide.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/eric-adams-andrea-cousins-carl-heastie.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Adams made an Albany pilgrimage to lobby Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins on bail-reform laws, but has so far been unable to get them reversed.\" class=\"wp-image-21564371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/eric-adams-andrea-cousins-carl-heastie.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/eric-adams-andrea-cousins-carl-heastie.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/eric-adams-andrea-cousins-carl-heastie.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Adams made an Albany pilgrimage to lobby Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins on bail reform laws, but has so far been unable to get them reversed.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\"><a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>\/@NYCMayor<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/nypd-new-uniform.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"It took Adams nearly three months to get his anti-guns unit (now called the Neighborhood Safety Teams, above) onto the streets. \" class=\"wp-image-21564401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/nypd-new-uniform.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/nypd-new-uniform.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/nypd-new-uniform.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>It took Adams nearly three months to get his anti-guns unit (now called the Neighborhood Safety Teams, above) onto the streets. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">NYPD<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He will, of course, be scrutinized over every perceived, imagined or fabricated micro-violation of each suspect\u2019s rights. For a taste of what we\u2019re in for, look no further than the recent New York Times headline, \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/14\/nyregion\/nypd-anti-gun-unit.html\">NYPD Rolls out New Version of Anti-Gun Unit With Violent Past<\/a>.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time ideological winds flew against a mayor. When Rudy Giuliani was facing over 2,000 murders in a single year in the early 1990s, few believed that better policing could make a difference. He proved the doubters wrong. But he had a three-touchdown handicap compared with what Adams faces: not merely a criminal-coddling political and media culture, but criminal-coddling laws which Adams can\u2019t wish away. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/rudy-giuliani-mayor.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"When Mayor Giuliani was facing over 2,000 murders in a single year in the early 1990s, few believed better policing could make a difference. But he proved the doubters wrong.\" class=\"wp-image-21564352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/rudy-giuliani-mayor.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/rudy-giuliani-mayor.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/rudy-giuliani-mayor.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>When Mayor Giuliani was facing over 2,000 murders in a single year in the early 1990s, few believed better policing could make a difference. But he proved the doubters wrong.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">ullstein bild via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Adams\u2019 pleading might have done some good. Gov. Kathy Hochul is at last proposing changes to the bail law that would, among other steps, give judges discretion to set bail and hold suspects based on their criminal histories.<\/p>\n<p>He must stay strong \u2014\u00a0and keep going. Whatever the critics say, our mayor needs to remember what the public wants: to see the number of shootings fall swiftly, especially in minority neighborhoods that suffer the most from bloody mayhem.<\/p>\n<p>For that to happen, he must conduct his next 100 days without the hair-splitting of his first 100 and with an unyielding\u00a0commitment to locking up the bad guys whether the Times likes it or not.<\/p>\n<p><em>scuozzo@nypost.com<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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His passion for the city and enthusiasm\u00a0for the job have already blown away the\u00a0\u201ctale of two cities\u201d sophistry of his\u00a0identity politics-peddling predecessor, Bill de Blasio. 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