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Eric Adams: “I bet you 90% of them don't have a high school diploma or…”

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Mayor Adams Visits NYPD Gun Violence Suppression Division

Published June 6, 2022 | Video Starts at 10:35

I bet you if you do a profile of these men that are here, you will find many of them are dyslexic, mental health issues, homelessness, fell out of school. I bet you 90% of them don't have a high school diploma or equivalency diploma. I bet you. And why aren't we catching them before they become shooters? Because they can't. By the time this arrest is made, we already failed. (10:35–10:41)

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Asserts that 90% of certain individuals lack a high school diploma or equivalency.

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“Our neighborhood safety team, we took 3,000 guns off the street.”
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“We lost 150,000 families.”
Mayor Adams Visits NYPD Gun Violence Suppression Division | Uploaded June 6, 2022 | 25:58-26:01
“It's a small number of people who are consistently inflicting violence [in our city].”
Mayor Adams Visits NYPD Gun Violence Suppression Division | Uploaded June 6, 2022 | 03:27-03:33
“Thanks to their work, we are seeing, you see the numbers, the charts are not lying.”
Mayor Adams Visits NYPD Gun Violence Suppression Division | Uploaded June 6, 2022 | 04:08-04:14
“People no longer believe that you can't do a shooting in the city.”
Mayor Adams Visits NYPD Gun Violence Suppression Division | Uploaded June 6, 2022 | 04:58-05:04
“These bad guys no longer take [the criminal justice system] seriously.”
Mayor Adams Visits NYPD Gun Violence Suppression Division | Uploaded June 6, 2022 | 05:17-05:17
“Shooters are going down, shootings are going down without violating the constitutional safeguards.”
Mayor Adams Visits NYPD Gun Violence Suppression Division | Uploaded June 6, 2022 | 06:26-06:36
“We're failing communities that have been denied with inequalities for years.”
Mayor Adams Visits NYPD Gun Violence Suppression Division | Uploaded June 6, 2022 | 10:16-10:22
“If this right to carry goes through the Supreme Court and becomes the law of the land, can you imagine being on a 4 train with someone…”
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“We made some victories in Albany around public safety.”
Mayor Adams Visits NYPD Gun Violence Suppression Division | Uploaded June 6, 2022 | 18:45-18:51
“The governor presented her 10 bills that I think are important, including micro stamping.”
Mayor Adams Visits NYPD Gun Violence Suppression Division | Uploaded June 6, 2022 | 19:18-19:24
“The Campaign for Fiscal Equity did not cover class size.”
Mayor Adams Visits NYPD Gun Violence Suppression Division | Uploaded June 6, 2022 | 24:26-24:29
“We're talking about $20 billion in capital, $500 million in dealing with the staffing and everything else.”
Mayor Adams Visits NYPD Gun Violence Suppression Division | Uploaded June 6, 2022 | 24:36-24:45
“We're down to 21.5 [students per class].”
Mayor Adams Visits NYPD Gun Violence Suppression Division | Uploaded June 6, 2022 | 25:45-25:53
“This city is in a real financial crisis.”
Mayor Adams Visits NYPD Gun Violence Suppression Division | Uploaded June 6, 2022 | 26:14-26:18
“We're going to have uniformed personnel, you know, going to patrol.”
Mayor Adams Visits NYPD Gun Violence Suppression Division | Uploaded June 6, 2022 | 27:13-27:18
“We are going to fortify our law enforcement officers to be proactive and prevent some of that violence from taking place.”
Mayor Adams Visits NYPD Gun Violence Suppression Division | Uploaded June 6, 2022 | 27:36-27:43