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Eric Adams: “The lowest number of shootings in recorded history.”

Featuring: Eric Adams, Democratic | Mayor of New York

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Interview with Mayor Eric Adams on Columbia Protest and Crime in NYC

Published | Video Starts at 01:30

You want to continue to run the city. What can you do to fix the recurring problem here? Yeah, and I think that's important. What you said crime has decreased the last quarter. The lowest number of shootings in recorded history. Do we have these high profile cases? Cases with 8.5 million people? Yes. What you expect from the police department is to make apprehension. We did it immediately. (01:30–01:33)

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Asserts that the city has experienced the lowest number of shootings in recorded history.

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