[NYPOST] If there’s a lesson to be learned from the Democratic mayoral primary — and there definitely is one! — it’s that it’s easy to ignore street violence when there’s very little street violence to be seen. Such is the oblivious attitude of mostly white Manhattanites who voted against Eric Adams...retired New York City police captain, member of the New York State Senate, first Black Brooklyn borough president, law and order Dem after a brief fling with the Publicans. The New York Times isn't fond of him, suspecting he may not actually be black...
, the only real law-and-order candidate in the race.
The de Blasio-era rise in violence did not impact all areas of Gotham equally. Not even close.
Inhabitants of lower-income, high-crime, mostly minority neighborhoods turned out for Adams in huge numbers, up to 70 percent of votes. The only major candidate who pledged crime-fighting strategies with real teeth, he earned the New York Post’s endorsement for making public safety his campaign’s centerpiece.
Meanwhile,
...back at the argument, Livia had made her point with her knee to Jane's stomach...
the neighborhoods that voted for Kathryn Garcia (and her wishy-washy crime-fighting strategy of replacing the NYPD’s "warrior culture" with a "guardian mindset," whatever that means) are among the city’s least dangerous, as shown by NYPD CompStat data for each of the city’s 77 precincts.
Adams, who was himself a cop for 22 years, wants to put more officers on the street and bring back undercover anti-crime units. He even suggested that stop-and-frisk — horrors! — can be part of a legitimate law-enforcement strategy.
If you listen to "progressives," black and Hispanic New Yorkers — some of whom have indeed endured police abuses — ought to recoil over Adams’ positions. Fortunately, those minority voters instead heeded the evidence witnessed by their own eyes.
The leftist media is scrambling to explain away Adams’ triumph in terms of a "platform that was part law-and-order, part police reform," as The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
put it. But Adams’ voters feared a stray bullet entering their living rooms more than they did rogue actions by a handful of bad cops. While every candidate pledged to curb errant officers, only Adams pledged to go after the bad guys on the streets.
The sections of Manhattan that voted for Garcia are the safest bubble within the bubble. Despite a few widely reported outrages, such as a tourist hit by a stray bullet in Times Square and nightly mayhem in Washington Square Park, most Manhattan districts are barely any more dangerous than they were prior to 2020, when misguided anti-bail laws and anti-cop sentiment allowed criminals to run free.
Guess how many murders have happened so far this year in my own vast, Upper East Side 19th Precinct, extending from East 59th to 96th street and from the East River to Central Park. Exactly one, along with three shootings. Garcia took most of the election districts here, with 36-45 percent of the votes compared to 15-22 percent for Adams.