The new mayor of New York Eric Adams promised on Monday to free the American megalopolis from guns. He decided to deploy plainclothes police on the streets after a wave of violence left a young officer dead.
“Gun violence is a public health crisis that continues to threaten every corner of the city,” said the former African-American police officer announcing a series of measures.
“Public safety is my administration’s top priority, and that’s why we will take guns off our streets, protect our people, and create a safe, prosperous, and just city for all New Yorkers,” said this elected wing representative. right of the Democratic Party.
Violence on the rise
Arriving at City Hall on January 1 with a program to fight insecurity and socio-economic inequalities, Eric Adams is faced with a resurgence of various violent events.
On Friday, a 22-year-old NYPD officer was killed and another seriously injured in a gunfight in a Harlem apartment in north Manhattan. A week earlier in the same neighborhood, a 19-year-old Puerto Rican was killed by a mugger at a fast food restaurant.
Pushed under a subway
On January 15, a 40-year-old Asian American woman was killed by a homeless psychiatrist who pushed her onto a subway platform as the train entered Times Square station. This homicide, without a weapon, marked hearts, as much as the injuries inflicted on an 11-month-old girl hit by a stray bullet in the Bronx while she was in a car with her mother.
One of the key measures in his plan is the reinstatement of plainclothes police patrols, ‘anti-crime units’ renamed ‘anti-gun units’ which were cut in 2020 following the death of African American George Floyd, shot dead by a policeman in Minneapolis .
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