Mayor Adams takes swipe at rival as NYPD reports crime continues to fall

Mayor Eric Adams credited his experience, and not, in his words, an “experiment,” for the city’s ongoing drop in crime, in what appeared to be a dig at one of his 2025 challengers.

“This is a moment of having experience, not a moment when you’re doing an experiment,” Adams said at a press conference Tuesday, without naming state Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist who won the city’s Democratic mayoral primary.

Adams listed several progressive public safety ideas – like defunding the police, decarceration and not hiring more police officers – and suggested they would make the city less safe…

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