NYC mayor says Lightfoot's loss is a 'warning sign' on ignoring crime issues

[RandySF]

Bloomberg) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams said last week’s reelection loss of his Chicago counterpart is a “warning sign for the country” and that fellow Democrats ignore the issue of crime at the party’s peril.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot came in third in a top-two primary election last Tuesday after a campaign that turned largely on the city’s skyrocketing crime rate. Adams told CNN on Sunday that her loss vindicates his tougher-on-crime policies, including a surge of police officers in the subway.

“Mayors, we are closest to the problems. I stated on the campaign trail and in the city — public safety is a prerequisite to prosperity, same as Chicago, like New York, and many of our big cities across America,” Adams said. “People want to be safe.”

Adams’s comments on CNN’s “State of the Union” underscore the divisions among Democrats on crime, as centrists rebuff “defund the police” rhetoric from the party’s progressive wing ahead of President Joe Biden’s likely reelection campaign in 2024.



https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/nyc-mayor-says-chicago-election-warning-sign-crime

[Me.]

1. Well, We Keep Hearing Here In NYC That Crime Is Down

yet every day there are shootings, stabbings, killings of other sorts not to mention robberies etc.

[RandySF]

2. What is a good source for keeping up with the City Council races?

[Me.]

4. I Would Say NY 1

online or on spectrum

[Dorian Gray]

10. Certain types of crime are down in nyc

what isn't down however is homelessness and subway harassment.

Quality of life in NYC (for the homeless who are left to fend for themselves and the people who need to use public facilities like the subway) is questionable, and we've been waiting for our mayors (BDB and Adams) to tackle it.

It's a huge problem, and not an easy answer. Of course.

I love living in Brooklyn and roll my eyes at all the fear mongering some of my suburban friends do. But I have a pre-teen child who is starting to consider high schools, and for the first time ever, we are considering a move out of NYC.

It's not so much bc I'm afraid of being murdered or robbed. It's because we are put out almost every time we take the subway or walk in the park. People smoking (both cigarettes and marijuana) on the subway. People screaming at us. People coming down from drug use twitching and acting irrationally.

My child is afraid to utilize public spaces and transportation, and we need to get around. It's not healthy for the homeless people who are living this way, and it's not healthy for the people who need to utilize these spaces for daily life.

[Freethinker65]

3. JFC. Lightfoot did not ignore crime you dolt. The opposition said she did.

Lightfoot was not well liked and made some stupid decisions alienating some communities. The not tough on crime is political BS.


Edited. Dolt is in reference to NYC's mayor.

[PortTack]

9. Exactly...Lightfoot came across really poorly. Always seemed agitated when challenged.

To me, she had good aspirations, just couldn’t pull it off

[yaesu]

5. Is this the same mayor who is a against separation of church and state

Seems like I read something about it here last week.

[yorkster]

6. Yes it is. They should have chosen Maya Wiley.

[Celerity]

8. +1

[Dorian Gray]

11. Maya is smart

and I like her as an advocate, but I was a Kathryn Garcia fan in the election.

[Me.]

12. Or Katherine Garcia

Both would've been terrific, better than Mayor Swag

[The Magistrate]

7. This Is Idiocy, Sir

Lightfoot lost in large part because of her decisions during the little squib of a 'riot' downtown in 2020 to raise the bridges over the river and shut down the CTA, both with no or little notice. People remember.

Much of the rest of her collapse was that she ran claiming she would police the police, and had the sort of hard-nose attitude made people believe it. In practice, she has been pretty much a groupie for the FOP. People who don't get what they vote for don't vote the same next time.

I voted for Ms. Preckwinkle, a person with successful executive experience in the county, who put its government in order after the Stroger dynasty.

I've nothing against Ms. Lightfoot, and had she not been faced with great crisis while still green, might have turned out fine. An amateur who found herself in over her head, unfortunately for her and the city.