After yet another shooting in the Big Apple that left one police officer dead and another clinging to life on Friday night, Mayor Eric Adams has sent a desperate plea to New Yorkers to help save the city while calling on Washington’s lawmakers to pass the gun reform.
The mayor stressed that what New York City needs is for Washington to join them and act immediately to stop the flow of guns which can be found in thousands on the city streets and are destroying the communities despite continuous efforts of the police to remove them.
Adams, a retired police captain who campaigned on reducing gun violence during his election, has often sparred with left-flank Democrats who criticize his positions on policing.
Now that the state Legislature is in session and a new City Council is getting ready to negotiate his budget, Adams is offered an opportunity to increase NYPD funding and to also push bail reform laws’ changes after he has been questioning them since being elected.
Adams pointed out earlier this week that he’d consider exempting the NYPD from his across-the-board mandate for city agency budget cuts.
NYC Mayor’s plea, followed by a call for unity between the largest police department in the nation and the city it protects, comes in the wake of the Friday night’s 911 call incident at a Harlem apartment when New York Police Department (NYPD) rookie Jason Rivera, 22, was killed and his 27-year-old partner Wilbert Mora remains fighting for his life.
Rivera and Mora, as Adams pointed out surrounded by hundreds of members of New York’s Finest, are the fourth and fifth cops shot in NYC this month.
He called those who bring illegal guns into the co-conspirators in the bloodshed on NYC streets but promised not to allow the violence to divide the city and to strive for unity to put an end to the problem.
According to NYPD statistics, shootings in the boroughs this year through Jan. 16 were up by 16% compared to the same period last year.
Following Friday’s incident, Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer stressed in a statement on Twitter that they’re devastated at the tragic news, offering his condolences to the NYPD officers.
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