Sara A. Carter “When I talk to New Yorkers I get a very different message every single day,” he said. “New Yorkers are concerned about rising rates of violent crime, petty crime, street homelessness. This is what we are seeing, and we need our city’s leaders to step up right now,” the New York Post reported.
Addressing the Times Square shooting with @KeithPowersNYC @WilliamAllenNYC @EdwinRaymondNYC – public safety is paramount. The police will be key to our recovery. We will establish a new anti-violence unit of specially trained plainclothes officers to reduce guns and gun violence. pic.twitter.com/CGtZrMJszx
— Andrew Yang???? (@AndrewYang) May 9, 2021
Yang expressed the city’s need for the police.
“Nothing works in our city without public safety, and for public safety we need the police,” Yang said. “My message to the NYPD is this: New York needs you. Your city needs you. We need you to do your jobs professionally, responsibly, and justly.”
My number one priority as mayor will be keeping us and our families safe from harm every single day.
— Andrew Yang???? (@AndrewYang) May 9, 2021
He said he has the police’s backs and will support them in office.
“And as you do these things, the people of New York will have your backs. I will have your back. Defund the Police is wrong for New York City.”
Read the full report here.
