New York mayor’s crime plans reinforce ‘worst parts of NYPD’, say experts

Progressives are skeptical of the mayor’s chosen methods, especially given the proposed reduction of money to New York’s housing services. Photograph: Lloyd Mitchell/Reuters

While New York City’s mayor, Eric Adams, has been defending his veganism and equating drug dependency to liking cheese, he has been escalating the city’s police powers, deeply concerning civil rights advocates.

Adams, the second Black person to serve as New York mayor, largely won the mayorship through securing the votes of Black, brown and working-class New Yorkers.