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

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Source: The Guardian

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

Plainclothes unit and enthusiasm for facial recognition technology are worrying civil rights advocates

Gloria Oladipo in New York
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Wed 16 Mar 2022 10.00 GMT

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.

Crime was an important issue in the election (and since then), and Adams’s politically moderate solutions to crime, with an emphasis on critiquing the flawed New York police department but without campaigning on defunding or switching some funds away, swayed voters.

But despite garnering support from top Democrats such as Joe Biden and New York’s governor, Kathy Hochul, Adams’s vast expansion of controversial policing tactics and calls for deep cuts to New York’s affordable housing and homelessness services have left many anxious about his impact on the very coalitions that elected him.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/16/eric-adams-new-york-city-crime-police

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