Mayor Eric Adams hitting all the right notes in his first days

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Mayor Eric Adams is already proving himself a breath of recent air, hitting all the suitable notes in his first few days.

After biking to work on his second day in workplace — already an enormous shift from Mayor SUV-to-the-gym — he moved to allay dad and mom’ considerations that the Omicron variant surge would hold their children out of faculty.

“Worry not,” Adams mentioned, “I'm protecting my colleges open,” he mentioned on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” detailing the shortcomings of distant training. “I'm protecting my colleges open, and we wish to ensure [kids] are going to be in a protected place.”

He’s not simply standing up on colleges: He’s additionally going through details on crime. He’s not solely defended the observe of “sensible” stop-and-frisk ways, he’s additionally sticking to his vow to reinstate undercover anti-gun models.

Richard Aborn, the impeccably liberal president of the Residents Crime Fee of New York Metropolis, mentioned the latest file variety of gun arrests by different undercover models is proof that related patrols will be out on the streets with out inflicting the controversy the outdated anti-crime unit precipitated.

In reply to the dysfunction within the metropolis’s jails, Adams can be defending cautious use of punitive segregation regardless of whining from Metropolis Council members about solitary confinement. “You can't be an inmate, sexually assault a correction officer or one other inmate, after which keep basically inhabitants,” the mayor mentioned on MSNBC. “Punitive segregation is a human manner of eradicating harmful inmates to a location the place they will get the providers they want, to allow them to cease preying on different inmates, workers and preying on society.”

He even dared diss the invoice to grant inexperienced card holders the suitable to vote in native elections, noting the lunacy of permitting it after simply 30 days’ residency.

And don’t low cost Adams’ refreshing vow to revive New York’s swagger: “We’ve allowed individuals to beat us down a lot that every one we did was wallow in COVID,” forgetting that “this can be a metropolis of resiliency.”

Stick with it, Mr. Mayor.