United StatesNew York's next mayorAdams's AppleEric Adams has a practical streak that ought to serve the city well"Some people talk about police brutality. I want to tell you how it is to live through it." So begins the video that launched Eric Adams's mayoral campaign.In the clip he stands outside the police station in Queens where, when he was 15, police beat him and his brother.Despite this experience, or maybe because of it, he later joined the police force, eventually becoming both a police captain and a prominent internal critic of racism and brutality at the NYPD.In his campaign he blended a call to reform the police with respect for the badge and a pledge to crack down on crime, and on July 6th, two weeks after the Democratic primary, he was named the projected winner.That almost certainly makes him the next mayor, since Democrats outnumber Republicans in New York's electorate by seven to one.In the city's first election by ranked-choice voting, the two candidates that rose to the top of a crowded field were both relative centrists.Mr Adams, who also served as a state lawmaker and Brooklyn borough president, won by just 8,426 votes, or 1%, over Kathryn Garcia, a well-regarded bureaucrat.
