Eric Adams cites presidential comparison, but rejects White House call for more cops

WASHINGTON — Eric Adams, the favorite to become New York City’s next mayor, said after a White House meeting Monday that he is known as “the Biden of Brooklyn” — though he rejected the president’s call to beef up police forces to combat the scourge of illegal guns. 

The former cop-turned-Brooklyn Borough president met with Biden and other local leaders on crime, but attempted to paper over Democratic divisions on whether to defund police forces or heed Biden’s call to hire more of them in response to spiking violent crime.  “The first thing we need to do is to do an assessment of how we are using our police officers now. Far too many police officers are doing clerical duty. Far too many police officers are patrolling in groups,” Adams said after a TV hit on the White House driveway.