![]() ![]() It needs a combination of all the agencies that deal with mental health. And remember, police can't only address the mental health crisis. Mayor Adams: And as I stated from the onset, when you see incidents like that, we have to really analyze what's happening in our city in a real way. What is Eric Adams' team doing to stop the robberies, especially in the transit system? But other things are up like robberies, which I think is the top of the list here. So when my friends who sometimes give me a hard time about being so pro-Eric Adams asked me to ask you on the show, Eric Adams, tell the listeners of the Arthur Aidala Power Hour what you and your team. And, again, there was no crime committed. I just got out and went into another car. I'm like, "If this guy starts throwing down. He's not necessarily looking at me, but there's an older woman next to me. And I go from reading my phone and put my phone away. And as soon as the doors close, he starts screaming and yelling and curse words. And there's a guy who looks like he's dressed kind of appropriately, no indication there's anything wrong. The train is like 50 percent full, as it should be at whatever it was, noon. I get on the train and I'm coming to my midtown office on the four train. So I'm in court right by your office there in City Hall. But I have to tell you, this Tuesday I believe it was. No one's got your back in it and is singing that song louder than I am. ![]() And I want to be clear on that.Īidala: No, listen. That's not the New York that I see every day. Arthur, if you wake up every day and people take the worst of our city and highlight it daily, you're going to define our city by that. And yes, we have scars of people who want to use violence that we going after, but we have police officers that have removed 5,000 guns off this street. Yes, we have six felony crimes a day on the subway system, but we have 3.5 million riders a day. Keep that in mind while you draw my portrait." Well, the portrait of our city. And when the artist came, he told the artist, "I know you see I have this scar, but remember I have a face. There was this person sitting for a portrait and he had a big scar in his face. I caught the numbers that you just dropped. Mayor Eric Adams: Hey, how are you brother? Good to speak with you. Without further ado, the mayor of the City of New York, my friend Eric Adams. So I know we feel a little less safe than we used to, but the numbers compared to when we said Rudy made us all so safe, we're a heck of a lot safer now. Murder down 22 percent, rape down 40 percent, robbery down 65 percent, felony assault down 20 percent, burglaries down 72 percent, grand larceny down 20 percent, and GLA down 76 percent. I mean, I'll just read off the percentage change from ‘21 to ‘98 without telling you that. But if you look at ‘98 compared to 2021, the numbers are still way, way, way down. 100,000 robberies in the City of New York in 1990. So Rudy knocked off a tremendous, tremendous amount. In the middle of the Giuliani administration, burglaries were down to 47,000. Let me just put things in perspective for Rudolph Giuliani, in 1990, there were 122,000 burglaries, 122,000 in the Dinkins administration. In 1998, there were 47,000 burglaries, and in 2021, there were 12,000 burglaries. I'm sorry, from Giuliani to de Blasio is down 40 percent. So we're 64 percent lower in robberies from the middle of the Giuliani administration until the end of the de Blasio administration. Let's see, what is it? It's a 64 percent drop. Robberies at the end of 2021 were 13,000. So in 1998, very deep into the Giuliani administration, robberies in the city of New York for that whole year were 39,000. And I don't have the 2022 numbers with the current administration, but this is the end of the de Blasio administration, the end of the administration of eight years that people say he's the worst mayor ever.Īnd I think the numbers are going to surprise some people, some people that are actually in this room. What I get hit with the most from people who know that I'm friendly with Mayor Giuliani, and I'm friendly with Mayor Adams, is how Rudy got things under control and the city was so much safer when Rudy was the mayor. Before we jump on the phone with the mayor of the City of New York, I just need to put some things to perspective, because I actually learned some things today preparing for this show with the mayor. And the mayor of the City of New York, he was the borough president, not in Staten Island, not in Manhattan, not in the Bronx, not in Queens, but of Brooklyn. ![]()
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