Eric Adams
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And every day we blast it. Every day. Every day. And so you wake up in the morning, open the paper, oh, someone got pushed on the subway track. Now, you may have never had a negative experience. Someone got pushed on the subway track. Then you go down in the system and you see someone walking with no shoes on, no shirt on, and they're yelling and screaming. You hear noise.
You hear it's not cleaning up. You begin to say to yourself, oh, I feel unsafe.
You hear it's not cleaning up. You begin to say to yourself, oh, I feel unsafe.
You hear it's not cleaning up. You begin to say to yourself, oh, I feel unsafe.
I'm feeling safe. And so what I have to do, as you said, I'm not going to go to you and insult you and say you shouldn't feel a certain way. No, I have to answer that fear. So that's why we put a thousand more cops in the system. We have them riding the trains back and forth. When I was a transit cop, that's what I did.
I'm feeling safe. And so what I have to do, as you said, I'm not going to go to you and insult you and say you shouldn't feel a certain way. No, I have to answer that fear. So that's why we put a thousand more cops in the system. We have them riding the trains back and forth. When I was a transit cop, that's what I did.
I'm feeling safe. And so what I have to do, as you said, I'm not going to go to you and insult you and say you shouldn't feel a certain way. No, I have to answer that fear. So that's why we put a thousand more cops in the system. We have them riding the trains back and forth. When I was a transit cop, that's what I did.
I rode back and forth because we know the omnipresence of that uniform can deal with that perception. Now, we have record decrease in crime, but that means nothing if people don't feel safe. Well, maybe I'm going to give you some.
I rode back and forth because we know the omnipresence of that uniform can deal with that perception. Now, we have record decrease in crime, but that means nothing if people don't feel safe. Well, maybe I'm going to give you some.
I rode back and forth because we know the omnipresence of that uniform can deal with that perception. Now, we have record decrease in crime, but that means nothing if people don't feel safe. Well, maybe I'm going to give you some.
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When you go back to when they were growing up and you go back to that period of time, graffiti was everywhere on all our trains. You can see you should see some of the pictures.
When you go back to when they were growing up and you go back to that period of time, graffiti was everywhere on all our trains. You can see you should see some of the pictures.
When you go back to when they were growing up and you go back to that period of time, graffiti was everywhere on all our trains. You can see you should see some of the pictures.
And so understand that's why civic is important, because when you see something like right now, when I came when I became mayor, we were having encampments all over. People living in cardboard boxes and tents on the side of highway. And when we came in, we said, listen, people are not living that way.
And so understand that's why civic is important, because when you see something like right now, when I came when I became mayor, we were having encampments all over. People living in cardboard boxes and tents on the side of highway. And when we came in, we said, listen, people are not living that way.
And so understand that's why civic is important, because when you see something like right now, when I came when I became mayor, we were having encampments all over. People living in cardboard boxes and tents on the side of highway. And when we came in, we said, listen, people are not living that way.
January and February of 2022, I went into the streets to talk to people that lived in these encampments, saw human waste, drug-powered fanalia, stale food, dyslexia, bipolar, schizophrenia. And so we came up with a real initiative that said, listen, we clean up these encampments and we put people in houses. We got huge pushback.