From Dinkins to Adams: What progressives see in New York's 2nd Black mayor

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

41% : He has focused his public addresses on his own experiences with law enforcement: He's an ex-NYPD captain who endured police violence as a teen.
41% : It's a slogan meant to capture his history as a former police officer (he spent 22 years in law enforcement in New York), a victim of police violence and an activist -- he co-founded 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care to combat racist police violence from within the NYPD.
40% : Even as abolitionists have held that they are not proposing that authorities abandon communities to violence, elected leaders have cited rising violent crime rates as reason enough for police budgets to remain intact.
31% : Adams' win comes decades later, as Black and allied progressive communities have called for an end to police violence through defunding the police, dismantling police departments, and redirecting law enforcement funding to social services, particularly in the turbulent months after George Floyd's death on Memorial Day 2020 in Minneapolis.

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