Mayor Eric Adams spent his first 48 hours in office straddling the same line he did during his campaign: Promising law and order, particularly through the restoration of a controversial anti-crime unit, while also protecting civil liberties.
to report a fight in progress while waiting for the subway to go to his first day of work.
But Adams also moderated the law-and-order message by talking about his efforts as a police officer to stop police brutality. One of his first stops on his first day as mayor was to the 103rd precinct in Queens, where he spoke of the trauma and PTSD he suffered when, as a teenager, he was assaulted by officers after being arrested on a trespassing charge. “Today, the demon is off my back,” he said.
To do that, his first plan is for newly installed NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell to create a plainclothes unit of officers to go after gangs and illegal guns. “It’s my mission, along with the mayor, to never stop working to rid our city of illegal guns,” she said.in 2020 in the wake of George Floyd’s killing.
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