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Eric Adams

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1360 total appearances

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Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys

You can't have 575 people. who are arrested for shoplifting, and they have been arrested over 7,500 times. 36 people who have assaulted people in the subway system have been arrested over 1,600 times. With this revolving door system and trying to convince our lawmakers in Albany that, yo, this is a problem, you know? And they're real problems. So who can do that?

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys

You can't have 575 people. who are arrested for shoplifting, and they have been arrested over 7,500 times. 36 people who have assaulted people in the subway system have been arrested over 1,600 times. With this revolving door system and trying to convince our lawmakers in Albany that, yo, this is a problem, you know? And they're real problems. So who can do that?

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys

The judges have to get on board, but there was a great deal of reform passed in Albany that Conceptually, it was a great idea. What was the concept? That was when you hear bail reform, discovery reform, raise the age reform. This is a lot of reform because we don't want a heavy-handed criminal justice system when everyone is being locked up for no matter what they do.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys

The judges have to get on board, but there was a great deal of reform passed in Albany that Conceptually, it was a great idea. What was the concept? That was when you hear bail reform, discovery reform, raise the age reform. This is a lot of reform because we don't want a heavy-handed criminal justice system when everyone is being locked up for no matter what they do.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys

The judges have to get on board, but there was a great deal of reform passed in Albany that Conceptually, it was a great idea. What was the concept? That was when you hear bail reform, discovery reform, raise the age reform. This is a lot of reform because we don't want a heavy-handed criminal justice system when everyone is being locked up for no matter what they do.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys

And that's what we're trying to show them that, listen, the data is showing these reforms you did in 2019 is having a negative impact on public safety. And it has been very centered on people who commit crimes. But what about the people who are the victims of these crimes? We have to start talking about those who are victims of these crimes.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys

And that's what we're trying to show them that, listen, the data is showing these reforms you did in 2019 is having a negative impact on public safety. And it has been very centered on people who commit crimes. But what about the people who are the victims of these crimes? We have to start talking about those who are victims of these crimes.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys

And that's what we're trying to show them that, listen, the data is showing these reforms you did in 2019 is having a negative impact on public safety. And it has been very centered on people who commit crimes. But what about the people who are the victims of these crimes? We have to start talking about those who are victims of these crimes.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys

It's not so much saying three strikes, two strikes. The judges, the judges must need to use the determination. Are you, is it a danger releasing you?

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys

It's not so much saying three strikes, two strikes. The judges, the judges must need to use the determination. Are you, is it a danger releasing you?

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys

It's not so much saying three strikes, two strikes. The judges, the judges must need to use the determination. Are you, is it a danger releasing you?

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys

Is it a danger releasing you? Judge has to make that call. Is it a danger releasing you, putting you back in society? If you're arrested in a short period of time for repeated burglary, repeated burglary, You make it up to your mind, listen, you can let me out as much as you want. I'm going to continue to do the crime.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys

Is it a danger releasing you? Judge has to make that call. Is it a danger releasing you, putting you back in society? If you're arrested in a short period of time for repeated burglary, repeated burglary, You make it up to your mind, listen, you can let me out as much as you want. I'm going to continue to do the crime.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys

Is it a danger releasing you? Judge has to make that call. Is it a danger releasing you, putting you back in society? If you're arrested in a short period of time for repeated burglary, repeated burglary, You make it up to your mind, listen, you can let me out as much as you want. I'm going to continue to do the crime.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys

And that's why, and I'm a big believer in non-violent crimes. What do you mean you're a believer in them? And that we should not be being heavy-handed. With the nonviolent crimes. Now, what we want to do is, hey, you have a drug problem, you're going into Rite Aid over and over again, and you're doing shoplifting. Listen, we're going to give you a pathway to deal with that drug issue.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys

And that's why, and I'm a big believer in non-violent crimes. What do you mean you're a believer in them? And that we should not be being heavy-handed. With the nonviolent crimes. Now, what we want to do is, hey, you have a drug problem, you're going into Rite Aid over and over again, and you're doing shoplifting. Listen, we're going to give you a pathway to deal with that drug issue.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys

And that's why, and I'm a big believer in non-violent crimes. What do you mean you're a believer in them? And that we should not be being heavy-handed. With the nonviolent crimes. Now, what we want to do is, hey, you have a drug problem, you're going into Rite Aid over and over again, and you're doing shoplifting. Listen, we're going to give you a pathway to deal with that drug issue.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys

So we don't want to be heavy-handed. And those are the alternative to incarceration, to give people the support they need. Because a lot of people think, okay, well, shoplifting is a victimless crime. That's not true. No, it's not. If that Rite Aid closed down, Ms. Jones now has to get on the bus and go to get a drugstore that's a mile away from her now. That costs her money.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys

So we don't want to be heavy-handed. And those are the alternative to incarceration, to give people the support they need. Because a lot of people think, okay, well, shoplifting is a victimless crime. That's not true. No, it's not. If that Rite Aid closed down, Ms. Jones now has to get on the bus and go to get a drugstore that's a mile away from her now. That costs her money.

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
NYC Mayor Adams on Bribery Charges, Corruption, & Which Borough Has The Baddest Shawtys

So we don't want to be heavy-handed. And those are the alternative to incarceration, to give people the support they need. Because a lot of people think, okay, well, shoplifting is a victimless crime. That's not true. No, it's not. If that Rite Aid closed down, Ms. Jones now has to get on the bus and go to get a drugstore that's a mile away from her now. That costs her money.