Mayor Adams vs. Critics: Crime Reduction Strategy
Mayor Adams prioritizes crime reduction despite criticism. Opponents favor alternative approaches like social workers instead of police. Focus on 'positive policing' faces challenges.
Adams claims subway violence — including horrific arson attack — ‘overshadowed’ NYC’s 2024 success on transit crime
The shocking, caught-on-video spectacle of Kawam’s body consumed by fire on an F train in Coney Island — all while the accused killer fanned the flames, before calmly sitting to watch the deadly pyre — punctuated a year of concerns that the subways are returning to the unsafe bad old days.