What Next - Does NYC Want a Cop for a Mayor?
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🗓️ 9 June 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
In the last year, New York City has experienced a surge in violent crime, reflecting a trend across major cities nationwide. In a heated race to be the city’s next mayor, one candidate, former New York police captain Eric Adams, is using the issue of public safety to his advantage.
Guest: Eric Lach, staff writer at The New Yorker.
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| 0:00.0 | I went to Harlem a few weeks ago to see one of the Democratic candidates running to be mayor of New York. |
| 0:13.0 | His name is Eric Adams. |
| 0:15.0 | Hi, I am Eric Adams, the Brooklyn ball president. |
| 0:28.0 | Adams has consistently polled at or around the top of the heap of people running in the Democratic primary. And the Democratic primary is widely considered to be what will determine who wins the mayor's office this fall. |
| 0:35.0 | We have the long march towards equity, justice, and just a right of people. |
| 0:42.6 | How do we end the historical inequalities in this city? |
| 0:48.3 | Adams is trim and usually smiling. |
| 0:51.2 | He squares his shoulders like a cop. |
| 0:53.4 | He used to be one. He was an officer in the NYPD for |
| 0:56.3 | over 20 years, and he has centered that experience during his campaign. And so I understand |
| 1:03.0 | proper policing, but I also understand proper safety. And that is what I'm going to lift up in the |
| 1:09.7 | city. Standing with the police is not an obvious or surefire way to win a Democratic primary right now. |
| 1:18.0 | Not after the year we've had. |
| 1:19.7 | Not after the decade New York has had. |
| 1:22.3 | The debate over police brutality has been going on a long time in this city. |
| 1:26.6 | When I saw Adams, he was getting peppered with questions about his views on stop and frisk, |
| 1:32.3 | this notorious police tactic of stopping and searching people, predominantly black and brown men, |
| 1:38.2 | with scant reason. |
| 1:40.6 | So, so, Jeff, because it's important, because if someone is in your backyard, four in the morning, hiding themselves, you call it police. |
| 1:50.0 | The police, the officer, has the right to stop and question that person. |
| 1:56.0 | That is how you use properly stop and frisk. |
| 2:00.0 | I was watching this exchange. |
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