A silent majority stands with him, Mayor Eric Adams claimed on Tuesday.
Hizzoner said at his weekly press briefing that most New Yorkers agree with his vision for the Big Apple, while further charging that a “numerical minority” of left-leaning lawmakers behind the passage of a bevy of legislation that he believes is unpopular had hijacked the City Hall agenda.
Mayor Adams made the comments in the wake of last week’s Council approval of bills that would ban most uses of solitary confinement in city jails and require the NYPD to publicly report on lower-level encounters with civilians. He is strongly against both pieces of legislation, arguing they will leave New Yorkers less safe by removing an essential tool to deal with violent individuals in city jails and by jamming up cops with mountains of additional paperwork.
