Mayor Eric Adams and top police brass championed Labor Day weekend as one of the safest in history on Tuesday through large-scale firearm confiscations, while also defending the controversial use of drones despite a spate of violence that put a blemish on the celebrations.
Top cop Edward Caban and Mayor Adams joined NYPD executives at police headquarters in Lower Manhattan on Sept. 5 to promote the holiday weekend as a rousing success for law enforcement.
“This is one of the safest J’Ouvert celebrations and Labor Day weekend as we have seen in recent memories and probably the safest J’Ouvert celebration in history,” Mayor Adams charged, equating the outcome to the use of drones. “It costs $1700 to fill up a helicopter, it costs 17 cents to fly a drone.”
