Watch: NYC Mayor Tells Residents to Stop Saying Crime Is Up, Says 'Perception' Is Making it Look Worse
Eric Adams, New York’s incompetent mayor, is urging residents to live in a state of denial by pretending that the terrifying crime wave that has escalated on his watch isn’t real.
He told New Yorkers not to believe their own eyes, claiming the runaway crime that has become emblematic of his disastrous tenure is a mass delusion.
“Can we please stop saying we’re up in crime in our subway system? We are not! We’re down in crime in the subway system,” Adams said during a news conference Wednesday.
The Democrat then reiterated a controversial comment he had made in 2022, when he told New Yorkers that it was their perception of crime — not crime itself — that had skyrocketed.
Adams insisted that “perception is playing into this” and “perception can override this.”
Adams made the absurd statements while touting statistics released Wednesday by the New York Police Department claiming that overall crime — including subway crimes — had fallen from the previous year.
Even if the NYPD statistics were correct, that’s hardly an achievement the mayor should spotlight, since crime was out of control in 2023.
Adams’ laughable suggestion that subway crimes are merely figments of people’s imaginations contradicts the grim reality they encounter daily.
WARNING: The following videos contain vulgar language that some viewers may find offensive.
Subway riders have to sit quietly and hope this deranged man doesn’t decide to follow through and break someones face with his elbow.
Because if someone effectively stopped him from threatening to murder people, Alvin Bragg would throw the book at him. And progressive… pic.twitter.com/QToHv6p7da
— Councilwoman Vickie Paladino (@VickieforNYC) March 28, 2024
Meanwhile… on NYC subway. pic.twitter.com/HYi9brhVsp
— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) April 2, 2024
Sicko, 19, nabbed for trying to rape woman inside NYC subway station: cops https://t.co/DXevT083wo pic.twitter.com/rSJXP7lzJW
— New York Post (@nypost) April 3, 2024
If New York subways are safe, why have additional police officers been stationed citywide and National Guardsmen called in?
To protect the NYC subway:
750 National Guardsmen
800 additional NYPD cops
250 New York state troopers
Bag checkers and checkpoints
$700k upgraded tech turnstiles
New high-tech weapons detectors
$20 million for mental health teamsThey would rather do all this than lock up… pic.twitter.com/3K82rXKkr7
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) March 28, 2024
Meanwhile, an internal NYPD document reviewed by the New York Post indicates that crime has surged to “levels unseen in nearly two decades.”
“For the second year in a row under Adams, overall crime was on the rise — driven by a historic surge in assaults — which neared 28,000 for the first time in the city’s publicly recorded history, according to the police department’s rolling report,” the outlet reported.
“While Adams has been touting his success in his war against crime, citing a slight dip reported at the end of 2023, the rolling report shows that the early-year victory lap was premature,” the Post said.
“The number of seven major crimes in 2023 jumped to 127,111 once around 430 upgrades were accounted for, marking the highest totals since 2006 for the second year in a row, according to the police data.”
Woman in NYC got randomly pųnched in the face, chipped a tooth and got a concussion.
America is not safe under Joe Biden.
New York is not safe under Kathy Hochul.
New York City is not safe under Eric Adams.
What do these 3 politicians have in common?pic.twitter.com/mXhNOSYVoU
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) March 27, 2024
Another woman punched in the face in New York City.
Things like this make you wish the Italian mafia would rise back to it’s old glory days and take care of this as we know the police won’t…#NewYork #CityLife #urban #women #crime #decay #FailedState #NYC pic.twitter.com/gPsZoeWJnP
— Mrgunsngear (@Mrgunsngear) March 29, 2024
Democratic City Councilman Bob Holden told the Post that “the reported stats [are] barely scratching the surface” and that his constituents constantly lament that crime has spiraled out of control.
“All I ever hear from storekeepers and constituents is that they stopped reporting crimes, because of the revolving-door criminal injustice system,” Holden said. “It’s a fact every New Yorker lives with daily.”
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