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Eric Adams: “Rikers Island is our city jail. We have 7,400 of the most…”

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Eric Adams Discusses New York City's Future Amidst Mayoral Race Against Zoran Mamdani

Published July 11, 2025 | Video Starts at 08:58

Well, when you look at the policies and you have to peel apart the policies and you get a full understanding of the impact. Let's take the Rikers Island is our city jail. We have 7,400 of the most dangerous people in our city. because due to bail reform, many of them did not have to go to jail. They were able to come out on our streets. He wants to open the jail and let them out. (08:58–09:05)

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“Not only did we have the lowest number of shootings and homicides in the history of the city, we took 22,000 illegal guns off our streets.”
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“Just as we lost that money, we gained a large number of young people, particularly tech.”
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“We became the hotspot for graduates, the number one location for graduates.”
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“Our nightlife is booming.”
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“Our economy is the strongest in history. Broadway hit the strongest 12 months in history.”
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“When you look at our top 1 percenters and how they ensure that we have teachers, firefighters, police officers, roads paved.”
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“Due to bail reform, many of them did not have to go to jail.”
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“We have the largest number of small businesses that are operating now under this administration.”
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“We broke the record 11 times [for business creation].”
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“9% of voters voted, 9%, 91%, they have yet to speak.”
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“Less than it was about close to a million. Now we went a million plus.”
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“Public safety, we have to be safe because that is the prerequisite to our prosperity.”
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“I was a police officer at the time and we saw an unbelievable lax criminal justice reform.”
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“The Republican Party started defining clearly the whole public safety agenda.”
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“I had a young man who was 11 years old. He was arrested two or three times for robbery.”
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“His dad was in jail for homicide. His mother was selling her body on the streets, hooked on crack cocaine.”
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“He was out of school for three months. And no one knew about it, that he was out.”
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“We're the safest big city in America.”
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“We were getting 4,000 [migrants] a week, you know, 8,000 every two weeks.”
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“The federal government did not allow me to stop the buses from coming in, did not allow me to allow them to work.”
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“City law required me to feed house and clothes, educated 50,000 children.”
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“I was charged and indicted for calling the fire department and asking them to do a building inspection.”
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“I was facing 33 years in prison.”
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“The U.S. attorney for the Southern District was a person named Damian Williams.”
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“Brian Benjamin, the Attorney General, the Lieutenant Governor, highest ranking African American in the state of New York. They indicted him…”
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“Cuomo also did other laws that many people may not understand the depth of them, like raise the age, canceling supplement for people who are…”
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“Bond raiders increased my bond rating, seeing how I was fiscally prudent and made sure we use our dollars correctly.”
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“Reducing the cost of childcare from $220 a month to less than $20 a month.”
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“Three years in a row, we built and renovated more affordable units in each independent year in the history of the city.”
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“Move more people into supportive housing in the history of the city.”
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“More people got those vouchers and were able to subsidize their rent in the history of the program.”
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“100,000 illegal vehicles that were being used for crimes.”
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“I gave my police officers a fair contract.”
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“Once you get to your first year, you see a substantial increase in the salary by the time you get to your max.”
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“We were able to fix [the salary issue].”
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“We need help and sign off also from the federal government.”
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“I started judging our agencies based on the end product.”
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“I would say yes, because we have so many rules and regulations that were put in place.”
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“We put an amendment on the ballot that will cut [the uniform land use process] time down to a year.”
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“One of the best transportation systems to get anywhere in the city.”
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“When I ran in 2021, Slingshot Strategies basically said, I don't, I can't stand a chance against Andrew Yang.”
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“These polls have a history of not knowing my voters.”
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“We have 700,000 small landlords. It's going to hurt them if they could never raise rent.”
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“We have 700,000 [small property owners] in our city.”
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“It's going to hurt poorer communities because buildings are going to fall into disrepair.”
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“One of the most dangerous calls a police officer can go on is a domestic violence call.”
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“My brother was a sergeant.”
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“I went down to ground zero that night.”
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“It's going to be. Yes. In New York and New Jersey. Put it together.”
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