Stray bullets in Times Square and widespread violence in the city are evoking New York's bleakest days, forcing leaders to fine-tune recent changes to policing and rethink revolving-door policies that send prisoners back to the ZIP codes where they committed crimes.
"There's no more deterrence, the bad guys aren't afraid of the police anymore, everyone gets bailed out, it's a revolving door system. We have more rules against the police than they do against criminals." He said policies during the pandemic have contributed significantly to the problems.
"You need a combination of community policing and good old-fashioned policing. There are bad people out there." Fear of brazen criminality came into focus when 21-year-old bystander Samuel Poulin was shot in the back in New York City's Times Square during a daytime spat on June 27.
Mr. Adams, who stands the best chance of emerging from the Democratic primary and succeeding Mr. de Blasio, is trying to balance support for police with progressive demands for reform in the wake of George Floyd's murder by a Minneapolis police officer last year.
On the bail issue, Mr. Adams told MSNBC that while some suspects awaiting trial are needlessly detained, there are "Too many people are being released that are dangerous." He opposes police chokeholds generally but said the city's diaphragm law didn't take into account certain scenarios, such as an officer wrestling with a suspect to protect civilians.
"These are trained professional police officers who know how to deal with emotionally disturbed and the homeless." Mr. DiGiacomo said the unit was performing well, but politicians didn't want the police involved in dealing with the homeless.
The city shifted the work to social services agencies in mid-2020 amid the sometimes bitter debate around fair policing that's unfolding in urban centers and Washington.
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