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Multiple candidates competing for the mayor of New York City hope to distance themselves from their past support from Initiatives to “defuse the police”.
The Democrats, such as the Senator of the State of New York, Zellnor Myrie, the former Comptroller of the city, Scott M. Stringer and the current Comptroller of the city, Brad Lander, have thrown their hats into the ring to replace Mayor Eric Adams in 2025. Since he announced their careers, each candidate has been Promotion of public and pro-political safety campaign to address the growing crime.
Both Stringer and Myrie have published a plan to hire more than 3,000 police officers, and Stringer also asks for “an officer dedicated on each subway train.”
Some candidates have published plans to add more than 3,000 police officers to the New York Police. (Peter Gerber)
Meanwhile, Lander was more regretful, and said he wanted to “recognize that the progressives, including myself, took to respond to the growing feeling of disorder that came out of the pandemic.”
This marked a marked contrast with his opinions on police and police financing only a few years before.
In June 2020, shortly After George Floyd’s deathLander commented: “It’s time to defuse the police and reinvent our public security infrastructure.” His mentality remained unchanged in 2021, despite having a security detail of the New York Police.
“All neighborhoods need and deserve to be safe, and we must face increasing levels of armed violence.” Lander said in 2021. “But New York already has more per capita police than almost all American cities.”
Stringer called A reduction of $ 1.1 billion In the police budget in 2020 during the apogee of Black Lives Matter protests.
Most of the New York Mayor’s candidates supported the cuts to the police budget after George Floyd’s death in 2020. (AP)
“The brutal and meaningless murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arriery are the most recent reminders of the long need for racial justice and reform in surveillance,” Stringer said. “We must call racism in all its ugly ways to break this painful cycle. But it is not enough to condemn racism with words: our struggle for justice must be backed with concrete responsibility and action.”
Myrie previously demanded the New York Policeclaiming that he was assaulted and sprayed with pepper while participating in a Black Lives Matter protest.
“Police brutality is in the DNA of this country and if we do not start the conversation from there, I will not get involved with you,” Myrie wrote in X (previously known as Twitter) in 2020.
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The change resembles Mayor Adams’s own Crime hard campaign That led him to victory. In 2021, he criticized his main opponent, Maya Wiley, for hiring private security while pressing to define the police.
“For me, that is the highest level of hypocrisy,” Adams said. “Security cannot be for the rich, it must be for all New Yorkers.”
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