Eric Adams
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He passed the cannabis laws.
I had to close down 1,500 cannabis shops because of the failed law he passed.
He did the bail reform.
That's the revolving door criminal justice system that we're looking at.
He closed psychiatric beds.
So every time you see someone push someone on the subway track because of severe mental health illness or stab three innocent New Yorkers, you have to ask yourself, why do we close those beds?
Raise the age.
We're seeing young people, a victim
of crimes more and more, and they're shooters as well.
These are all of his bills.
I had to fix his mess.
And so Madani's call to defund police, his calls to legalize prostitution, his calls to empty Rikers Island, they're two of the same people.
New York has come too far to go backwards with either one of them.
Well, I've been clear, and I don't believe if someone steals an apple that we should hold them in jail because they can't afford to get out.
But if you are possessing an illegal weapon, you commit one of the seven major crime categories in our city, you are repeatedly an offender, we need to look at the criminal justice system that allows you to continue to go back and you repeat the crime.
We saw what happened with the Custom Border Patrol agent.
These were repeated offenders.
We just had a shooting over the weekend.
The individuals involved, they had several gun arrests.
That just can't continue to happen.