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…