NYC mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa denounces Eric Adams' stance on refunding NYPD
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New York City GOP mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa on Wednesday denounced challenger Eric Adams' flip-flopped stance on refunding the New York Police Department (NYPD).
"I'm saying take the money now," Sliwa, who created the Guardian Angels volunteer nonprofit in 1979 to help prevent crime, told Fox News Wednesday. "Washington rarely offers money. The president may take it off the table. Bank it, hire the cops, train them, get them out there so that we could have a graduating group of cadets in the streets by October and then continue the process." Adams, a former transit officer, recently shifted away from his previous comments questioning whether New York City needs more police officers. The Demcoratic borough president of Brooklyn said city leaders "should utilize the money to stabilize crime in the city" and "use the money for additional resources on the transit system to ensure our tourists are really safe as well as the passengers," in remarks made days later, according to The New York Post.More Related News