Eric Adams: Democrats’ Priorities Regarding Crime ‘Were Misplaced’

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ADAMS: "Yes, I do. I believe those priorities, they really were misplaced. And it's almost insulting what we have witnessed over the last few years. Many of our presidents, they saw these numbers. They knew that the inner cities, particularly where black, brown and poor people lived, they know — they knew they were dealing with this real crisis. And it took this president to state that it is time for us to stop ignoring what is happening in the South Sides of Chicago, in the Brownsvilles, in the Atlantas of our country. And so it is extremely important that, just as we became energetic after we saw mass shootings with assault rifles in the suburban parts of our country, which we should have, we should have also focused on the handgun. The numbers of those who are killed by handguns are astronomical. And if we don't start having real federal legislation, matched with states and cities, we're never going to get this crisis under control."