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WHAT ABOUT THE BLACK CRIME TIDAL WAVE IN NYC? ANY DIFFERENT IN ANY OTHER CITY??? - Voters Turn on NYC Mayor Eric Adams over Handling of Crime
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A top Democratic congressional recruit in an Ohio swing district backed a motion to end cash bail in Cincinnati as the city experienced an "unprecedented" homicide spike.
As a Cincinnati city councilman in April 2019, Greg Landsman submitted and approved a motion to eliminate cash bail for nonviolent misdemeanor cases. Nearly one year later, the Democrat introduced a second motion that called for such offenders to avoid arrest altogether and instead receive a "citation to court." And in June 2020, as homicides reached an unprecedented high in the city following George Floyd's death, Landsman took the policy a step further—he signed onto another motion that endorsed ending cash bail altogether and called for "public pressure" on the surrounding county to do the same. Landsman told the Cincinnati Enquirer he supported the measure because Floyd's death "changed something" in him.
Roughly two years later, Landsman is the Democratic nominee to unseat Rep. Steve Chabot (R.). Though he must win over swing-district voters to win the race, Landsman's crime policies are more closely aligned with his party's most liberal members. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.), for example, in November called for a "federal intervention" against the use of "excessive bail." Just one day earlier, Darrell Brooks allegedly plowed through a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wis., while out of jail on an "inappropriately low bail amount." The rampage killed 5 people and injured at least 48 others.
Landsman's crusade against cash bail is not the only time the Democrat endorsed soft-on-crime policies during the summer of 2020. In June of that year, Landsman penned a proposal to pull $200,000 in funding from Cincinnati's police budget. Just weeks later, the city suffered its fourth double homicide of the year.
Landsman's proposals to end cash bail and defund police did not stop the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) from recruiting the councilman to challenge Chabot. In March, the committee added Landsman to its "highly competitive Red to Blue program," which it says "arms top-tier candidates with organizational and fundraising support, strategic guidance, staff resources, candidate training, and more." The DCCC's press release announcing the move said Landsman "has dedicated his career to making life better for children and families."
Landsman did not return a request for comment. According to a 2020 Manhattan Institute study, bail reform policies such as those championed by Landsman have "led to the release of a number of dangerous defendants, many of whom were later rearrested for offenses committed while awaiting the deposition of their cases."
The DCCC's support for Landsman may have deterred other Democrats from entering the race against Chabot. Landsman did not face a Democratic challenger and formally emerged as the party's nominee following Ohio's Tuesday primary elections. The councilman has raised roughly $562,000 to Chabot's $1 million.
Landsman is not the only defund the police supporter with ties to the DCCC. In May 2020, for example, committee digital strategist Nijeria Boone labeled police a "terrorist group" and called to "abolish the police" because "they were created to capture runaway slaves." DCCC chairman Sean Patrick Maloney (N.Y.) has assured voters that Democrats do not support defunding the police, an accusation he called a "Republican talking point."
Voters Turn on NYC Mayor Eric Adams over Handling of Crime
New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) made tackling crime a central plank of his successful election campaign last November. A poll released Wednesday shows his inability to deliver is being punished by disillusioned voters.
A survey by Quinnipiac University shows crime is the top concern of 49 percent of city voters — more than triple the 15 percent of respondents who cited affordable housing and 12 percent homelessness.
However just 37 percent of city residents approved of Adams’s performance on crime, compared to 54 percent who disapproved.
This is a reversal from the 49 percent who approved and 35 percent who disapproved in a survey as recently as last February.
The divide between the mayor’s intentions and voter expectations is just as stark when party affiliation is taken into account, even as he appeared at the Met Gala this week in a suit emblazoned with the message “End Gun Violence” as Breitbart News reported.
NYC mayor Eric Adams wearing a tuxedo with the words “End Gun Violence” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute benefit gala on Monday, May 2, 2022, in New York. (Getty)
Twenty-five percent of registered Republicans approved of the new mayor’s handling of crime, compared to 45 percent of Democrats and 35 percent of independents. And along racial lines, 34 percent of white residents approved, compared to 46 percent of black residents and 33 percent of Hispanic respondents.
Adams, a retired transit cop, made law and order the cornerstone of his bid for City Hall. But violent crime has mostly worsened during his four months in office with no sign yet of an end to the violence as an overwhelming majority of voters (86 percent) support having more police officers in the New York City subway system, while 12 percent oppose it.
Police talk to a man in a Times Square subway station following a call to police from riders on April 25, 2022 in New York City. Data released by the NYPD shows felony assaults on the NYC transit system rose more than 50 percent between February and March. Mayor Eric Adams has made safety in the transit system one of the key initiatives of his administration. (Spencer Platt/Getty)
The mayor’s overall job approval also took a hit — with 43 percent of voters approving and 37 disapproving disapproving.
In Quinnipiac’s February poll, 46 percent of voters approved of Adams’ job as mayor while only 27 percent disapproved.
Such is the pressure of expectation on Adams that in March he turned to Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot seeking ideas on how to tackle crime in the Big Apple, although he did not disclose just what advice his fellow Democrat mayor delivered.
“Mayor Adams gets a positive score on his job performance, but it’s tepid. The biggest weight on his numbers: crime. It’s by far the most urgent issue and voters are holding him accountable,” said Quinnipiac Poll analyst Mary Snow, according to the New York Post.
A total of 1,249 New York City registered voters were surveyed from April 28th – May 2nd with a margin of error of +/- 2.8 percentage points for this poll.
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