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Protecting and Serving
Brooklynites
“Public safety is the prerequisite to
prosperity.”
That quote by Borough President
Adams, a 22-year veteran of the New
York City Police Department and founder
of 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement
Who Care, embodies a philosophy
guiding his work on advancing policing
forward, with the dual goals of reducing
crime across Brooklyn while building
strong community relations in every
neighborhood.
In his first year and a half at Brooklyn
Borough Hall, his efforts to improving
policing in New York City saw notable
progress. Borough President Adams
regularly dialogues with Mayor de Blasio
and NYPD Commissioner Bratton, under
whom he served as a police officer in
the 1990s, on important policies and
reforms that should be enacted at One
Police Plaza. Positive results that have
emerged from those conversations
have included the end of stop, question
and frisk abuse; a new training plan;
focusing on pedestrian safety; the hiring
of former Chief of Department Joseph
Esposito as Commissioner of the Office
of Emergency Management; stepping
up security outside houses of worship
in the wake of attacks against religious
communities; and the hiring of almost
1,300 new police officers to enhance
counter-terrorism efforts and dedicate
resources to meaningful community
policing.
In addition, Borough President
Adams laid out a series of proposals
in June that he believes will strengthen
the NYPD and significantly improve
community-police relations. To enhance
the newly proposed neighborhood
policing model, he has recommended
a pilot program in one precinct in each
borough where every officer would
have their role expanded to connect
residents to social services and be
‘ambassadors’ for City programs like
IDNYC program and Pre-K for All.
To address the ongoing diversity
problem in the NYPD, he has called
for expanding access to the police
exam to school safety agents, traffic
enforcement agents, and Health and
Hospitals Corporation peace officers,
agencies that are overwhelmingly more
Borough President
Adams stood outside
the Boulevard
Houses in East New
York, alongside
community and
police leadership,
to announce over
$50,000 for a reward
toward information
leading to the
apprehension of the
suspect in several
local stabbing
incidents.
Photos: Kathryn Kirk/BP’s Office
diverse than the city they serve. To direct
more young people toward positive
alternatives to hanging in the streets,
he has called on the Department of
Education to open up public schools at a
low cost to all groups seeking to use the
space for positive youth and community
development.
Borough President Adams has
also stood behind low-level summons
reform while supporting Broken
Windows policing; he recognizes that
quality-of-life violations can destroy
neighborhoods, but is concerned that a
young person arrested for failing to pay
a low-level summons at the age of 18
can become unemployable at 21 due to
an arrest based on a summons warrant.
“You don’t fix broken windows, like
New York’s Finest have done, to let them
be re-broken,” wrote Borough President
Adams in a New York Daily News
editorial. “Now, think of these summonsable
offenses like a crack in one of our
windows. A warrant will not repair that
crack, but will kick the problem down
the road and lead to a bigger break. We
must find a more effective way to fix that
fissure.”
In times of challenge to the borough’s
public safety, Borough President Adams
has been consistent in his leadership.
When a series of stabbings in public
housing shook East New York last June,
he got the partnership of Western Beef to
offer over $50,000 for a reward toward
information leading to apprehension of
the suspect; later, he joined with local
leaders in organizing a block party to
help heal the community.
When the deaths of Eric Garner and
Akai Gurley led to protests of the NYPD
by thousands, he raised his voice for
criminal justice reform. When Detectives
Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos were
senselessly gunned down in Bedford-
Stuyvesant, he became a national voice
for healing, organizing vigils for the
officers and convening borough-wide
town halls on improving communitypolice
relations.
As his term as Brooklyn’s chief
executive progresses, Borough
President Adams will continue to protect
and serve Brooklynites, just as he has
done since his days in NYPD blue.
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