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Gun violence in New York, a test for the new mayor

New York’s newest mayor, Eric Adams, had promised to improve security in the largest city in the United States. The first three weeks of his tenure were marked by gun violence, increasing the pressure on this former police officer.

On Friday, a 22-year-old police officer was killed and another seriously injured in a shooting in the Harlem neighborhood. A test for Mr. Adams, whose plan to curb the crime that he decried so much during his campaign is still awaited.

“This is our city against the murderers,” the Democratic mayor said Friday night from the Harlem hospital where the officers, who were responding to a call from a mother dealing with an abusive son, were taken.

Among the recent violence, one incident particularly marked the spirits: an 11-month-old girl was injured in the cheek by a stray bullet in the Bronx, while she was in a stationary car with her mother.

“I’m going to roll out a real plan this week when I talk to the people of New York, and we’re going to tackle the root causes” of crime, promised Eric Adams, 61, Sunday on CNN.

We see “a sea of ​​crime that has been fed by many rivers”, and “we must put a dam on each of these rivers”, he launched.

In addition to the proliferation of weapons, the Covid-19 pandemic and its social and economic consequences have fueled this violence, which will surely be at the heart of an upcoming confrontation between the new mayor and the left wing of his party in about funding the police and ways to fight crime.

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