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Curtis Sliwa: “Crime is surging now in the city.”

Featuring: Curtis Sliwa, Conservative | Radio Talk Show Host, Former Candidate, Mayor of New York City

Curtis Sliwa shares vision for NYC in race against Mamdani, Cuomo, and Adams

Published September 3, 2025 | Video Starts at 02:23

What is the biggest issue right now that you think is facing New Yorkers? And if you are elected mayor, what are you going to do to kind of get tackle that? Well, Crime is surging now in the city. There's blood running in the streets of the Bronx and Manhattan and Brooklyn. And unfortunately, the Eric Adams administration has told Us, we don't know what we're experiencing. (02:23–02:26)

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Asserts that crime rates are increasing in New York City.

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“We're spending $42,000 per public school pupil even though there's 100,000 less students.”
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“Two thirds of fourth graders cannot read, write or do math at grade levels.”
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“A third of the students don't even bother showing up for school.”
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“The Department of Education budget is one third of an already bloated $118 billion city budget.”
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“They no longer have qualified immunity.”
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“I have a plan to get 7,000 more cops into the streets.”
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“200 schools that have less than 200 students, they won't conflate them.”
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“I'm the only one advocating that we slash taxes.”
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“Private income taxes, which are incredibly high, corporate taxes, and of course property taxes and this congestion pricing, which is nothing…”
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“Cuomo failed us with no cash bail.”
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“Eric Adam, been a failure as mayor, corrupt right down to the marrow of his bone.”
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“Zoran Mandami doesn't want to hire cops. He wants to hire social workers.”
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“This sanctimonious hypocrite is now protected 24 hours a day, seven days a week by armed police officers of the NYPD.”
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“Eric Adams, the former police officer, did nothing to protect fellow police officers when that qualified immunity was taken from them by our…”
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“We're in the middle of a serious gang retaliatory violence problem that [Eric Adams] has ignored.”
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“He wants to send ICE in and he wants to take away illegals who might be working in the backs of restaurants and in the hospitality industry…”
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“Tom Holman, ICE go after the bad hombres. That's what they were doing at first, the gang bangers, the drug dealers, the narco terrorists…”
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“When this city and state had no corruption, the crime was depleted and there was a great quality of life.”
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