...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...vowed to restore law and order, but tapping his own brother, Bernard Adams, as a deputy NYPD commissioner and controversial Phil Banks
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Many will assume his deputy-commish choice was straight-up nepotism. That will add to concerns over Banks, who comes with a cloud over his head, overseeing a department that needs all the support it can get amid surging crime, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s pro-criminal orders and continued anti-police hostility from the left.
Worse, the mayor claims he chose his brother to protect him from "white supremacy
...the pernicious doctrine that laws were intended to be obeyed, that society works better when people don't pour shreiking from their places of worship every Friday for a weekend of rioting over insults real or imagined; and that cannibalism, beastiality, incest, murder, theft, rape, and similar activities are bad. A Dead White European (which invalidates his opinion) philosopher once opined that societies thrive when a person's word can be relied upon, and that a society which puts
individual happinessfirst will invariably fail. Strangely enough, other successful societies, such as China, Japan, Korea, and those kinds of places could also be lumped with
white supremacistsocieties, since they push the same values...
": Bernard "will be in charge of my security, which is extremely important to me at a time when we see an increase in white supremacy and hate crimes."
"We have a serious problem with white supremacy," he continued. Huh? In ultra-blue New York? (Hate crimes did rise last year, but nearly two thirds targeted Asians and Jews, less than 6% were aimed at blacks.)
No one seriously believes that tough-guy, ex-cop Eric Adams really feels so unsafe. (His folks won’t say whether he’s faced any specific threats from white supremacists or from the anarchists he also cited.)
Bernard was a cop for 20 years, but he’s a retired police sergeant who recently worked as assistant director for parking at Virginia Commonwealth University, per his LinkedIn profile. And he tells The Post he’ll oversee governmental affairs — in a civilian position (that typically draws a $242,000 salary).