By: Primo Manzello

New York City Mayor, Eric Adams, is speaking out to his own Democratic Party by blaming former Chicago Mayor, Lori Lightfoot’s recent reelection loss on rising crime rates.

“I think it’s a warning sign for the country,” Adams said in a CNN interview Sunday when asked if his ultra-progressive Chicago counterpart’s measly third-place finish last week a warning sign for New York was.

“Eric Adams has been talking about public safety, not only on the campaign trail but for the first year,” Adams explained to “State of the Union” host Dana Bash. “I showed up at crime scenes. I knew what New Yorkers were saying, and I saw it all over the country. I think if anything, it is really stating that this is what I have been talking about. America. We have to be safe.”

Adams, a Democrat, as is Lightfoot, made public safety a hallmark of his 2021 mayoral campaign. The former city cop said Sunday he believes public safety is a “prerequisite to prosperity” for the Big Apple, Chicago and other major cities across the US, writes.

“We are focused on public safety because people want to be saved,” Adams said, according to the interview transcript released by City Hall.

Eric Adams has experience fighting crime as a retired captain of the NYPD.

When Bash pressed him on if his focus on crime has helped feed a GOP talking point that there is too much crime, which hurts Democrats, Adams replied, “I say, I listen to Americans and New Yorkers.

“The polls were clear: New Yorkers felt unsafe, and the numbers show that they were unsafe,” Adams said. “Now, if we want to ignore what the everyday public is stating, then that’s up to [others]. I’m on the subways, I walk the streets. I speak to everyday working-class people, and they were concerned about safety.”

He said that while there have been recent decreases in shootings and homicides in the city, New York has to focus on stopping recidivism.

“We have a recidivism problem in New York and far too many people, there’s about 2,000 people who are repeatedly catch, release, repeat in crimes,” Adams said. “If we don’t take them off our streets, they’re going to continue to prey on innocent people.”

There is some good news concerning crime in New York City. The New York Post reports that major crime in New York City dipped 5.6% last month compared to February 2022 — and people already feel safer partly because they see more friendly cops who tell them, “Good morning,” the NYPD’s top cop said Friday.

“We started an initiative where officers are more engaging with the public, to just say, ‘Good morning,’ if you see someone to just let them know that we’re there,” Commissioner Keechant Sewell told a small group of invited reporters Friday afternoon.

While Adams is mostly correct in his analysis, it is important to note that while the winner of the primary is a normal Democrat, Paul Vallas, the candidate  who finished in 2nd place, Brandon Johnson is a left wing radical,  to the left of Lightfoot, and it should not be a surprise if the voting base, who often takes race over anything else elects Johnson (who is Black) to become the next mayor. The young white voters of Chicago are radical leftists and while the black vote is not traditionally far-left.