Mayor Eric Adams Endorses Kamala Harris, Solitary Confinement Ban, Addresses Council Criticism + More
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
What's up its way up at Angela Yee, I'm here,
and Jasmine Brand is here. Yes, I'm here, and Mayor
Eric Adams is here as well.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
I gotta give me an Eric Brand.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Adams, get to a drop from whatever you come up
here so you can play it before the.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Right And we just heard some shockings. You're getting a
tattoo for the first time, you know, I.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Always want to one, and I want to give one
of my mom.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
That's nice picture.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yeah, a picture.
Speaker 5 (00:28):
You know, I have a real picture before she transitioned,
you know where I'm holding her hand, and I would
like to get it.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Like your chest.
Speaker 6 (00:35):
Okay, who sounds painful, but she's worth it. She's worth it.
Speaker 5 (00:39):
She is you know, got I gotta take the pain.
And I'm looking at the brother. You got all these tattoos?
Speaker 6 (00:43):
Yeah, so do you have an artist in mind already?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
No, you could tell me what's that. There was a
brother that opened in Brooklyn.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
On a Fulton Black ink.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Is he still Yeah, it's still there. I just walked
past her. Yesterday's by the rest.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
He did something in Brooklyn when I was the Brooklyn
Borbo president. Yes, I'm going to reach out to he's.
Speaker 6 (01:05):
Going back to Brooklyn to get his first tattoo.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Well that's amazing, you know, because I don't have any.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
But it's good that you didn't get it younger because
a lot of people regret tattoos as they get Yeah,
they can remove it.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
That's a painful practice as well. All right, Well, let's get.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
To some real topics now, because I saw you endorsing
Kamala Harris, so of course, you know, first and foremost,
we have to discuss that. Was that a surprise to
you at all? Because I know they kept saying Biden
was going to drop out.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Yes, And you know, we should really take our hat off,
because when you reach that level and you're finishing the half,
it takes a lot.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
To say I'm going to step away.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
And he's just a real true American when you look
at the tragedies that he has gone through, the loss
of family members and loved ones to still serve the
country and then make the decisions that for the good
of the country he.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Decided to step aside.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
And then you know, we should understand its infican of
having VP Harris, you know, because a lot of people
get mixed up. Politics is substantive and it's symbolic. Yes,
we have to make sure the trains run on time,
but what symbols are we putting in place? Like Barack
Obama just just opened the door for all of us.
And now you have a an African American woman with
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Indian heritage. Uh, you know, you're just going to see
this energy, you know. And she's a.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Soro you know, like, wait till you see.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
They already brought out all the hotels and.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Yeah, they are, so the whole divine.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
Nine, it's gonna be gon, be serious.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
So this is significant.
Speaker 6 (02:41):
And she went to HBC you too, think about it.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Think about it, and that that says so much that
because you know, people want to act like our HBC
using it is an inferior product. And so when you
have now the president of the United States, the most
powerful country in the globe, it.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Just sends this. So the stock goes up for HBCU.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
We produce presidents and so I'm excited about it. And
trust me, she knows how to turn on the sister girl,
and she knows how to you know, to deal with
that whole corporate entity. You know, she is a solid,
solid of debater. And in twenty twenty, when she ran
for president. I endorsed her.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Oh wow, right, so this feels good, right right?
Speaker 6 (03:26):
I told you so.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Everybody in the prime mayby that was there, I said, no,
this is this is the one that we need to
be going with.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
You know.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
It's interesting because people will say as a VP, and
I've seen people say this, she wasn't present, she wasn't
doing anything. And I just want you, as a person
who is in the space of politics, to discuss or
to dispel that, because a lot goes on behind the scenes,
but it's not really supposed to be the VP in
front of the cameras all the time.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Without a doubt.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
And what you don't want to do as a VP
is overshadowed the president, you know. So there's a real balance.
And like my dms, all of my deputy mayors, they say, listen,
Rick is the man. We're going to be here to
take the orders and move the ball down the field
and come up with ideas, but you don't want to
as a VP.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Is a delicate balance.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
You know, you don't want to overshadow the president, but
you need to be there to put the pieces in places.
She has done that, and some of the criticism is
like come on, give me a break.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Well, you know, I don't like the way she laughed.
I don't like the want.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
That's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
They'll be like, she has a white husband. I don't
know why black people are celebrating this. I've seen that.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
And that's all of that. You know, let me tell
you something that we have to be honest about it.
You know, we need to have these real conversations that
some of us wake up and look in the mirror.
We don't like what they see, and they turn it
on to people that look like them. You know, she
she has a real solid credentials. And if we keep
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the main thing, the main thingocused on the topics, there's
always a reason not to like someone, right, But let's
not be creative.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
Who do you think would be a good VP for her?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Some good, some good picks out there.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
I don't even want to throw out names because then
all of a sudden, you know, you get on the
whole committee. You know, so I think, but there's some
good folks out there to do so. I don't know
if if the country is ready for.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
A woman and woman I said the same thing.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I said, it's already a very misogynistic, sexist, place, because
there are definitely people who even women who are like
I don't want a woman to be president. Yeah, some
people didn't want Joe Biden to win just in case
Kamala had to.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
Take like we thought, we knew it was gonna happens.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
And listen, Eric Adams, you are always in the news
and getting criticized. I know, you know what it's like.
Hajia is just getting nice and tough now well.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
Always, Well, you know, in this business, you do the
best you can and you give it your all.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
And I give it my all every day.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
And I love being mayor of the city, helping people
in the real way. And when I look at some
of the stuff we're doing. When I was with those
brothers up at Ryker's Island and just sitting next to
them as we were rebaptized, and them seeing that, you know, hey,
this brother is sitting next to us, you know, and
saying that, hey, I am you, or when I am
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what I'm doing with foster care children. People knew what
was happening the foster care children when they aged out,
were giving them life coaches into the twenty one panic
college tuition and giving them a siphon. But when you
look at these real things, it just you know you're
here for a reason.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
I'm continuing with David Dinkins.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Started took us thirty years to get another mayor of color,
and I'm going to make sure that I deliver as
much as possible from mwbe's six billion dollars in mwbees.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
These are unheard of affordable housing. This is a huge situation.
I feel like I'm always defending you to people, so
I want.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
To talk about something you are and it's wrong with that.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Yeah, since you brought up Rikers Island, I know one
of the big topics that people have brought up about
that is solitary confinement, right, and so the way that
and so the way that it's framed is Eric Adams.
They wanted this city council wanted to get rid of
solitary confinement, but you didn't want to. I love this topic,
So I want you to explain what it is that
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you think it should happen, and what you had to
say about keeping people safe, but what the whole thing
was solitary confinement at Rikers Island.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
I'm so glad you did because the first of all,
there is no solitary confinement in New York State. It
has been banned, right, and it's in humane and barbaric
to place people in solitary confinement. What they did, What
people are doing is a bait and switch. They know
that the term solitary confinement hits at our emotion, so
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they're calling what they attempted to do in solitary confinement.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Y'all know what.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
There is no solitary confinement. What there is called punitive segregation.
And I don't care if it's in a cell or
give somebody a whole room. If if you assault, slash
someone in the face on the street, what do we do.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
We arrest you, We take you out of general population.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
If you slash someone in jail, people are saying, let
them stay in the population of the prisoners eighty percent
over eighty percent of the prisoners who are people who
are assaulting on Rank Island, other prisoners, other prisoners are saying, yo,
get here.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
May is my kid now.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
I talk to somebody who was locked up and he
told me he was like, the problem in jail is
that there are people who are really violent who do
think they.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Can't be around.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
But so punitive segregation is what it is. But it's
not the same as solitary.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
What's the difference.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Besides what's the solitary confinement.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
You're placing someone in a small cell by themselves, not
allowing them interaction, and not letting them out of the cells.
It's inhumane to do. It plays on your psyche. It
could really cause real mental health issues. So you move
someone in punitive segregation, you're taking them out of general
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population because again they are assaulting of the inmates. I
when you talk to other inmates, they tell you this
guy is off the charge. So that what they want
to propose two dangerous parts of this that even the
monitor saying is dangerous. They want to propose someone slashes someone,
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they stay in that population.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
They stay in general population. That's just say yea.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
The second thing they want to propose is that when
correction officers, who are predominantly black and Hispanic, almost forty
something percent are women. They're saying when they transport large
number of prisoners down to court that they can't restrain them.
They can sit there without any restraints at all. You
will never transport a prisoner in the back of a police.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Car without putting handcuffs on them.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
So how are we say into these black and brown
officers that you're gonna tru transf for twelve thirteen fourteen
people in a bus to court, and you cannot be
restrained while you're going to court. People have beef up there.
They want to attack other prisoners. It's a public safety issue.
So the ideal that they had was real there. But
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idealism collides with realism when you have to hand it out.
It's a special monitor that's in charge of correction. They
wrote a letter say this is dangerous. You can't do this,
you know, so we can do it in a humane way,
but we need to do it right.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
And city council and you guys, you have been butting
heads with city council, and so I want to get
into that a little bit. I was looking at something
that Tosa posted also today and that was about advice
and consents, right, So can you explain to us what
advice and consent is and what's going on with Eric
Adams versus city council because it feels like they say
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you override things and then they override you.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
So I want you to talk about that.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
That's so important, Speaker, Agent Adams, my high school classmate
is the first African American woman to be the speaker.
I'm the second African American mayor. We are both in
power at the same time. Unprecedented never has to happen
before in the history of the city. And we had
unprecedented crises, COVID two hundred and seven thousand migrants and
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asylum seekers, a seven point one billion dollar deficit in
our budget.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
When you look at what we have accomplished, it's remarkable.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
And ninety six percent of the things that we come
up against we agree on what we have done around libraries,
cultural institutions, et cetera. But when you have an energy
that number one.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
People are pischeduff that you got these.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Two prominent blue collar, working class families that are now
running the most important city on the globe. So they
are trying to feed Oh look at them. All they
doing is we have the most women in the history
of the city council.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
We have the most people of color in the history
of the city council.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
So there's this belief out there that, Okay, we want
to show that they can't manage and government.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
When you look at.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Our successes, it's unbelievable what we have accomplished and so
there are going to be bills that we disagree on,
and they are mechanisms in place that if I say
I disagree on the bill the city Council, they have
the power with a supermajority, to override me.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
That's the nature of the business.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
I have the power whenever I want to put something
on the charter Commission of this is when you're able
to tell that the public here you want to vote
on something we believe should be in our charter.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
I have the power to do that. So we both
have different.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
Powers that allow us to navigate the politics of things.
And so this advice and consent build what they're saying.
You're elected, you're responsible for the agencies carrying out their jobs.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
They say.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
They're saying, we want to your commissioners, we want to
pick the people who you appoint to be in charge
of agencies.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
And I'm sing, hold up here.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
You know, when the garbage is not picked up, people
are not looking for the city council members.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
They're looking for the mayor.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
And I want to be able to go to my
commissioner and say, listen, you got to get this right.
If crime is going through the through the room, they're
not saying okay, well, let's go to see the city council.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
They said, man, what are you doing about it?
Speaker 5 (13:24):
We're this has been tried before in the city and
it kept being knocked down. And all of these folks
who are knowledgeable about government are all coming out saying,
can't do that. You have tried that before historically, everybody
say it can't be that way. The mayor should pick
his commissioners, and he should be responsible for those commissioners.
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Now they already have Authorization and improving and two commissions,
Department of Investigation and the Court Council.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
We have to get approval for them.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Right now, we're seeing what we want to put them
forward a Court council. It's being held up some of
the council people without even talking to who we're putting
in place.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
I said, we didn't want to talk to him. We
don't even want to sit down and speak with him.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
Okay, you know, so imagine every commissioner becomes a jocking
back and forth the political and I gotta I have
to run the city.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
It's kind of like what the federal government's like exactly exactly.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Think about it there you go on a different scale.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
No It's good because I think I read a lot
of articles, and I'm always paying attention to what's going
on in New York because I'm a New Yorker for life,
and so i do feel like I need to listen.
And I'm shout out to jail downstairs. She said, could
you please ask the mayor why they not giving out
tickets anymore?
Speaker 4 (14:36):
For alternate side parking in the streets not getting clean.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
I don't know, you know, it goes to show you,
you know. I like to say, we have eight point
three million New York's thirty five million opinions. You know,
no matter what you do, there's other folks who said,
why are you giving out to you?
Speaker 4 (14:52):
But I said, I'd rather than not get a ticket.
But She's like, but the street's not getting clean.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
No, they getting Let me tell you something. I'm going
after my number one enemy.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
The rats. I did a home Reportela.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
No, but I do want to say, what a simple solution, right,
Let's make people put their garbage and containers and containers
by the way, one of the funniest press conferences where
you came out and you rolled up the garbage can.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
They wanted five years to do it and the commissioner
and I and our rats are.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
We said, nope, we need to ride away. Right. We're
going to do it in less than three years.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
We're going to containerize our garbage, which is going to
have a major impact on Rodi.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
You know how many said when I posted that story,
so many people were weighing in, like, we hold on,
what were.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Y'all doing with your garbage before this?
Speaker 6 (15:41):
Listen? And I said that y'all put it on the
South I'm telling you.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
And I said, and I said, you actually can't be
mad at the mayor for this because this has never
happened before. But I'm gonna tell you what the problem
is to Also, people be stealing garbage kids, and we
used to have to write our address on it, address
on it chain the garbage can. How do you prevent
something like that? Because you know, you put that garbage
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can out, you got a nice new shiny garbage can.
Speaker 6 (16:07):
Somebody want that and they want more than one garbage canton.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
Yeah, and the beauty is now now that everyone would
will have one. Then the incentive bized you know, yeah,
everybody right right right?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
I like that.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
In DC, we have to come we put ours in our.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Ben and then you put it in an alley and
then they come down to alley and they pick everyone's trash.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
I never don't have alleys, I know.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
But I've never seen trash on it wild.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
That's what people say when I go to European countries
and they say, plastic bags do and they have bins.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
So we're really catching up.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
And no one thought they could be done, but we said, yes,
we are, you know, and by November, seventy seventy percent
of our garbage is going to be in bens.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Okay, good.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
We're dropping down the course of the Benz less than
the retail price because they got an exclusive contract. It's
going to lower it below retail price and it's just
going to be a game changer in unsightlyedness. Nothing could
disrupt your day more than the rat.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Listen, I won't go to work if I come outside.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Is it?
Speaker 4 (17:12):
I'm sorry, I can't make it into today. Are you serious?
Speaker 3 (17:15):
You know?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Ben man, Ben run across your feet walking.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
In the middle of the street, in the middle of
the street because I can't take it anymore.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
Listen, we want and we want to make a major impact,
and we are. We are the rats are We're seeing
a decrease in rats and.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Not with that job. Yeah, I would not want that job.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
It's terrified her.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Now let's talk about these illegal cannabis shops, because we
saw you just shut some of those shops down, but
there's still like three thousand illegal cannabis shops. But I
do want to stress the importance of shutting those shops
down because guess what, you don't know what's in that
weed when you're going to these shops. So discuss that initiative,
because it is certainly a problem. And how are you
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supposed to know if a shop that you're going to
is illegal?
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Right? Great question.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
What when we passed when they passed us the cannabis
law in Aubany, you know, every day folks just heard
that is legal. So everybody started opening shops, and you're right,
about three thousand open. And we went back to Aubany
two years in the rug. Hats up to Assembly women
Jennifer Raj Kamar who really pushed this smoke out of
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legislation to say we got to close these shops. And
they gave us the power of now combining our sheriffs,
who had the job only for the most part, with
police department. By deputizing them now it's allowing us to
really go and do some closing.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
We close over seven hundred and what we're finding now.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
The community is giving us a lot of tips like
we were able to We found five to ten million
dollars over the weekend see Saturday.
Speaker 7 (18:50):
Night, you know, and that's a good idea.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
To turnover whatever proceeds. That's a good idea.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
You know that if you if you've identified the place,
because you're right, this stuff is lace with any and
everything and it's really impacting our children. They are really
focusing on young people with edibles, mushrooms, and it's really
having an impact. So we close seven hundred. We're really
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finding our groove now and closing. We're going to really
shut down these shops. And you know what's happening, you're
setting an increase in the profits from the legal shops
that now they no longer have to compete with the
illegal shops. But we over the weekend, we went to
a we got a tip about a deli. We walked
through the store. In the back they had a couple
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of million dollars of cannabis, pre rolls, mushrooms, edibles. You
got to see this stuff they happen.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Wow, what is it called when you have the fake
bar in there? What is it called a cafe place?
Speaker 4 (20:06):
And they have a secret room like they had like
the speak Easy.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Speak Easy. They had one of the deli.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
And I mean that room was connected to a couple
of doors were connected and the place we went to
on Sunday, Sunday morning around about two am in the morning,
it was a couple of blocks. Now on that block
they had seventy three one one calls from people complaining
about that location. Loud voices, I mean noise, you know,
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fight and when you walk inside. Remember those machines you
have when you go into the meat market, you pull
your number, you like, wait for your number.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
To be Yeah, they had one in there. Wow, you
know how busy it was.
Speaker 6 (20:45):
It's organized. I will get a license and trying to
get a license.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
But you know, getting a license is not easy. It's
not easy. It can be expensive. It's a way, there's
a lot of things you have to qualify rightfully, so though, yeah,
you know, and I don't think anybody should be able
to just get a license.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
And it's a process and it's.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Not fair for people who went through the process and
did the process the right way. Now people were mad
that you did drink Champs. I saw that too.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
I love drink my.
Speaker 6 (21:12):
Guys, you drink or smoke or anything. On the show,
I had a kind of kind did you have?
Speaker 2 (21:20):
You know those are like those are guys?
Speaker 6 (21:23):
Yeah, but what are you what I'm asking?
Speaker 2 (21:25):
I like titose, I'm a guy. You ale, yeah, and
you know what this is? You know what? You know
what the.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
Problem is that I that I've watched people believe when
you when you're elected, you have to be and and
and you know this perfect person. I'm trying to say
the folks, no, man, stop this man Like sometimes I'll
be out and I would be smoking the cigars and
some titos, and people say, oh, you can't take a
picture like that.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
The hell I can smoke.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
A lot of politicians do that, though They'll be like,
hold on, I can't have a drink in the picture.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
People want a real people dealing with real problems.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
I'm you know, I'm who What you see is what
you get. Because if you don't, if you don't try
to hide who you are, you.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Got to be worried about somebody hiding behind the car
and say, look, look I got you know, I told
you all from the beginning. You know, I am who
I am, and I'm the everyday cat. Like late at
night DJ would know. Sometimes we running late at night
and I'll see a barbershop that's closed down in the
back doing some Hennessy and cooler.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Now, I said, oh, let's fall up in there.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
They be like, no, you don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
They welcome us in and we shuit down and engauge.
But that's the type of leadership we need.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
I saw you said Kamala Harris should be herself, right,
because a lot of times though I do feel like
for Kamala Harris though with the stage that she's on
there she gets a lot of unfair critics. She's a
black woman, yeah right, and don't descand like you said,
also and people are definitely got all kinds of awful
things to say about her, and so that makes it
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harder for her to be who she is.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
But you know what, haters are not going to be
with you no matter how you.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Change, because it's that angry black woman Trump. So you
can't even like she's angry. She like even how Donald Trump,
you see, he's so nervous he does not wanted.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
To bang her. He's saying the worst things.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
You know how you call her dumb And I'm like, sir,
if anybody have no reason.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
If anything, he's going to energize folks because when you
would listen, like I said, she could do the sister
girl thing and she could go and do the intellectual things.
We wear many hats, and that's what we need. If
you're going to go in to deal with real problems,
you have to be authentic about it. And that's what
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I'm hoping. I'm hoping whoever comes after me, whoever falls
into these other spots, corporate spots, don't.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Abandon who you are.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
You know, for so many years we had to talk differently,
walk differently.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
We don't want to be ourselves, but other folks can
be themselves into Yeah, like the head of Goldman Sacks,
he's a DJ. Yeah he's a DJ. Is he a
good DJ? Well, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
But he's comfortable enough in his skin to say, I
want to do what I like. Why do we have
to abandon what we like because we want to fit in?
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Listen, I became the mayor. I didn't change from the
day I ran for office. To who I am. I'm
the same person, and I.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Will say that's very true.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
And one thing I always say about mayor Eric Adams
is he might say something that people think it's crazy,
but he means it.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
And sometimes also maybe a.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Little bit of a maybe I shouldn't have said that,
but it is what it is, because that's life.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Do you ever do you have regrets? And I'm not
gonna ask you what do you have regrets about things
that you say?
Speaker 5 (24:47):
Sometimes everyone has a great regrets, and yes I do,
because you know, there's a lot of emotion here and
you know, you see the hypocrisy and sometimes when you
call people on their sho they can't handle it, you know.
And I'm not going to sit back and you're not
going to urinate or mean tell me his rain.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
You know, it's awful.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Clear.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Let's be clear that.
Speaker 5 (25:15):
You know, there's so much hypocrisy in this game, and
everybody's afraid to call it when they see it.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
And I'm just not going to do that because this
doesn't last forever.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
A day when the show is over and I want
to look back over and say I was authentic with
my stuff, man.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
And I got rid of the rats.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
I hired the first ever rat zar. That's a big deal.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Now, let's also talk about these upcoming elections for you,
because I know you're getting ready definitely out raising money
when it comes to everybody else who has thrown their
hat and formed their exploratory committees and potentially, you know,
running against you. So let's discuss what is Mayor Eric
Adams planning to do and what can you say? This
is what we accomplished this term, and this is what
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we still have to work on.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Nobo said. And the thing is, you know people are
in the race.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
You know I outraised everyone that's running combined. Okay, you
know when you put all of that money, I raised them.
And it was important because people want to say all
his support is eroded, it all, no one is with them.
Folks said, listen, man, I'm donating to you, Eric because
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I want people to know.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
I want them to see my name.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Because if you hear people tell it, they're like, people
do not like Eric Adams.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
They'll talk about polls.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
He's got the lowest polling since they started doing the
polls as a mayor.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
But you noise and I had the hardest decisions, you know,
trust me. People are angry about the micras and asylum
seekers because they feel listen, they taking everything from us.
A lot of people didn't know the facts that I
couldn't stop the buses. I can't let them work. I'm
required by Lord, the feed clothed house, educate. And now
people are starting to pick up and say, wait a minute,
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wait a minute. We didn't know that, right, And that's
what I hear the most from people. We're out there
doing shows like these, doing town halls, I'm hearing people
more and more and say, wait, man, I didn't know that.
I didn't know that you cut black unemployment of black
unemployments now below eight percent from the first time since twenty.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
Nine black and Latino and black and Latino unemployment.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Our children outpacing the entire stadium reading the math.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
Like I said, what we're doing with dyslexias screen is
so thirty to forty percent of our inmates is not
going to be sitting in jail because they didn't get
early diagnosis. What we do in my food a big thing,
big with you feeding our children and hospitals, healthy food,
small businesses, more small businesses in the history of the city.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Folks back on the subway system.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
Think about it. People thought Manhattan was never going to
be what it.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Was before, and it was yeah, and look at it
now like all these different businesses. But I will say
I do see businesses having issues with people stealing and
everything getting locked up, and what.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Do we do about that?
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Because that's really tough for some businesses that even have
had to close.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
A tough issue, a national crisis that we're facing with shoplifting.
All of my mayors across the country is telling me
about the same thing. It's the recidivism. We have five
hundred and forty two people that they have been arrested
seventy six hundred times. They have become too comfortable with
going in stealing items. We've partnered with with a lot
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of our businesses. We started a pilot in Harlem where
folks are connecting cameras right to the pre censor. We
could identify them. But it's a real recidivism recidivism problem.
People are stealing over and over and over again over again.
Now I think it's an indictment or society when you
have to lock up your razor blazers.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
Oh my gosh. Sometimes I'd be like just forgetting.
Speaker 6 (28:42):
I hadn't stand all because there's something else.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Ione, can you come with me to the next time
somebody to come.
Speaker 6 (28:47):
It's usually like and.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
You can't even do self check out in some places
anymore because people are stealing.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:52):
No, shoplifting is a real issue and it hurts the
business and it hurts people when they close down. We
lose employees and then miss zones have to get on
the bus to go get up medicine. You know, an
elder was telling me in Harlem. She says, I should
be able to walk right down the block to my drugstore.
Now have to take a bus ride to my location.
And so there's a lot of people that say, well,
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you're criminalizing the poor of when you're wrestling for shoplifting.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Now, I'm not trying to buy that. You're criminalizing those.
Speaker 5 (29:20):
Who are being laid off or lose their jobs, or
my seniors who have to travel far. You know, you
should not be going to being repeated shoplifters. If there
are things you need their mechanisms to get those things.
And so it's a real problem for small businesses and
it hurts their bottom line.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Absolutely, you know, I tad Jasmine on the train the
other day to come to work. We took the train
hair and back because you know, I live two blocks
in the train, and sometimes it's just easier. But now
I want to talk about what's being implemented, because I
feel like people discuss the New York City subway like
it is the worst thing.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
It's dangerous right right now. We did have to hear
a couple of sermons on the chain.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
We had a concert saying the drums going and everything.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Yeah, I feel like we've somebody asked me for my
phone number. I'm like, you know, they ask for pictures.
The morning is not bad, it's the evening.
Speaker 6 (30:12):
It's kind of like.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
That's just for me.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
And but anyway, I did have Jasmine on the train
and she's like, I'm going to start doing this more
frequently because it was so much convenience, so much more convenient, relaxing,
And people do my name business for the most.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
They do, they do think about the full moment. We
have four point one million daily riders, four point one million.
We have an average of five felonies a day on
the train. With four point one million, we have less
robberies on our subway system. Now in the history of
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the city these we had one month January when we
saw a bump and I put a thousand new offices
down there. The governor and I partner together. July, we're
going to have six straight months of decreasing crime in
our subway system. The is are those with severe mental
health issues. You see them and they begin to define.
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Then you read the stories, you believe that that's the reality.
So we're getting ready to do a whole program called Scout,
and we're going to really give people the help they
need because listen, if you're yelling at yourself unkept walking
the cold with no shoes on, you need help for sure.
And we have subscribed to this theory in this city
that just ignore them, act that we don't see them.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
And our administration said no.
Speaker 5 (31:30):
We moved over seventy seventy six hundred people of our
subway system and brought them in care. A thousand are
still in care. But we take we have taken a
very forward thinking approach that is inhumane and have people
living in these conditions.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
And the other thing you guys have is now screening.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Yes, right, so tell me about that being implemented like this,
I see AI screening weapons.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
This is some good. This is some good stuff. This
is not.
Speaker 5 (31:56):
The airport type screen and we have to stop the
put stuff out on the table and all that good stuff.
Speaker 6 (32:01):
This is not that that would take forever.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Right, you just walked through.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
And the beauty of it, if you're carrying a gun
on your waist, on your ankle, or a fanny pack,
it shows you exactly where the gun is.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
It's unbelievable.
Speaker 6 (32:15):
Take so then alerts yes, and.
Speaker 5 (32:17):
Somebody's going to be there looking at a screen when
people just walk.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Through, they're regularly swipe your metric card and just walk through.
Speaker 5 (32:25):
If you when you walk through these two columns, it
would show you that, hey, his it shows a little
red square, here's where gun is carried.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
We tested it a couple of thousand times.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
And every time about how many stations are going to
have this. Initially we're going to start out with one.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
We're going to grow to five, and then it's mobile
so you can move it around.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
And yeah, yeah, yes, yes.
Speaker 5 (32:49):
I clearly believe the future is going to be that
these are going to be right in your turnstiles and
when people come through the turnstile, they're going to be
able to pick it up.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
This is some great technology.
Speaker 6 (33:00):
And let me look at I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (33:01):
When you look at it, it's really impressive to see
that square of where the gun actually is.
Speaker 6 (33:07):
Do any other cities do this yet or not?
Speaker 5 (33:09):
Of my knowledge, I think we're the first that's doing it,
and we have the largest subway system. But people want
to feel safe. You don't want to be on the
car on the train. Somebody got a gun like that
that shot up.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
And oh my gosh, yeah that was wild. Yes, you know,
well listen this the mayor has to go.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
But I know you're going to keep on coming up
and love it because we have so many things to
talk to you.
Speaker 6 (33:30):
About this next time.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
When I'm hearing it's natural to kill to day, I
kind of feel.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Like I've never been a person.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
You know, I can't vote for you then, I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (33:43):
That's why I draw the line.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
Everything else is fine, But the.
Speaker 5 (33:47):
Beauty is like, I love how you get down to
the nitty gritty of the conversations.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
A lot of people read.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
The headlines and it turns into their reality. Man, folks
ain't gonna write anything good about this administration.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
You know a lot of things are going to get
implemented now that we're not gonna see actually the results
from until later, like talking about the AI and the trains,
talking about affordable house and talking about these development projects
that are in the work.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
So somebody else is gonna get.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Credit for that later, and when the bad things happen,
you get credit for that because you came into office
during the time. One thing I will say one of
my friends is like, the problem with the mayor is
that he has a big ego.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
That's what I heard somebody.
Speaker 6 (34:30):
Yes, not expect that.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
About it for a moment that people expected us not to.
Speaker 5 (34:39):
You better have a big ego to wake up every
day and deal with two hundred and seven thousand micro
seekers in New Yorkers, folks who stepped in you all
the time. Mother told me as a child boy, you
better believe in yourself. That's right, you know what I'm saying,
And we should be telling all of our young boys
and girls. Believe in yourself. Believe in yourself. If if
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if I didn't believe in myself, I would have listened
to the narrative that stated because you are dyslexic, you're
not you're not smart enough.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
You can't do this, you can't do that. You better
every day.
Speaker 5 (35:12):
You should wake up, reinforce it, some type of affirmation
that tells you, no matter what you go through, you can't.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Mom did that. She worked three jobs on her arthritic
knees and never complained.
Speaker 5 (35:24):
She bought that little house for us in Queens and
so South Jamaica Queens and people say, when you're doing doctee,
why you why don't you just go on social service?
She says, no, you know I'm gonna do this for
my children.
Speaker 4 (35:35):
And now you're gonna get that tattoo on your chest. Yes, yes,
oh my gosh, we have to see this. Listen if
you cry or something.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Would have been fine until you told me. It hurts, you.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
Know right here, Christ, But you.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Know now you're don't psyche me up.
Speaker 6 (36:00):
You've made the worst that He's crazy though.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Love it, love it.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
Good. Good to see you too. I can't wait to see.
I know you're going to check back.
Speaker 5 (36:06):
In next Yes, yes, I'm gonna come back and I'll
be probably be showing you my tattoo by then.
Speaker 4 (36:10):
Oh gosh, all right, well, hopefully you don't say this
hurts too much. I can't finish because I will do that.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
That's it, all right, Adam, way up
What's up its way up at Angela Yee, I'm here,
and Jasmine Brand is here. Yes, I'm here, and Mayor
Eric Adams is here as well.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
I gotta give me an Eric Brand.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Adams, get to a drop from whatever you come up
here so you can play it before the.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Right And we just heard some shockings. You're getting a
tattoo for the first time, you know, I.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Always want to one, and I want to give one
of my mom.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
That's nice picture.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yeah, a picture.
Speaker 5 (00:28):
You know, I have a real picture before she transitioned,
you know where I'm holding her hand, and I would
like to get it.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Like your chest.
Speaker 6 (00:35):
Okay, who sounds painful, but she's worth it. She's worth it.
Speaker 5 (00:39):
She is you know, got I gotta take the pain.
And I'm looking at the brother. You got all these tattoos?
Speaker 6 (00:43):
Yeah, so do you have an artist in mind already?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
No, you could tell me what's that. There was a
brother that opened in Brooklyn.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
On a Fulton Black ink.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Is he still Yeah, it's still there. I just walked
past her. Yesterday's by the rest.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
He did something in Brooklyn when I was the Brooklyn
Borbo president. Yes, I'm going to reach out to he's.
Speaker 6 (01:05):
Going back to Brooklyn to get his first tattoo.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Well that's amazing, you know, because I don't have any.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
But it's good that you didn't get it younger because
a lot of people regret tattoos as they get Yeah,
they can remove it.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
That's a painful practice as well. All right, Well, let's get.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
To some real topics now, because I saw you endorsing
Kamala Harris, so of course, you know, first and foremost,
we have to discuss that. Was that a surprise to
you at all? Because I know they kept saying Biden
was going to drop out.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Yes, And you know, we should really take our hat off,
because when you reach that level and you're finishing the half,
it takes a lot.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
To say I'm going to step away.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
And he's just a real true American when you look
at the tragedies that he has gone through, the loss
of family members and loved ones to still serve the
country and then make the decisions that for the good
of the country he.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Decided to step aside.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
And then you know, we should understand its infican of
having VP Harris, you know, because a lot of people
get mixed up. Politics is substantive and it's symbolic. Yes,
we have to make sure the trains run on time,
but what symbols are we putting in place? Like Barack
Obama just just opened the door for all of us.
And now you have a an African American woman with
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Indian heritage. Uh, you know, you're just going to see
this energy, you know. And she's a.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Soro you know, like, wait till you see.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
They already brought out all the hotels and.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Yeah, they are, so the whole divine.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
Nine, it's gonna be gon, be serious.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
So this is significant.
Speaker 6 (02:41):
And she went to HBC you too, think about it.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Think about it, and that that says so much that
because you know, people want to act like our HBC
using it is an inferior product. And so when you
have now the president of the United States, the most
powerful country in the globe, it.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Just sends this. So the stock goes up for HBCU.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
We produce presidents and so I'm excited about it. And
trust me, she knows how to turn on the sister girl,
and she knows how to you know, to deal with
that whole corporate entity. You know, she is a solid,
solid of debater. And in twenty twenty, when she ran
for president. I endorsed her.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Oh wow, right, so this feels good, right right?
Speaker 6 (03:26):
I told you so.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Everybody in the prime mayby that was there, I said, no,
this is this is the one that we need to
be going with.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
You know.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
It's interesting because people will say as a VP, and
I've seen people say this, she wasn't present, she wasn't
doing anything. And I just want you, as a person
who is in the space of politics, to discuss or
to dispel that, because a lot goes on behind the scenes,
but it's not really supposed to be the VP in
front of the cameras all the time.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Without a doubt.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
And what you don't want to do as a VP
is overshadowed the president, you know. So there's a real balance.
And like my dms, all of my deputy mayors, they say, listen,
Rick is the man. We're going to be here to
take the orders and move the ball down the field
and come up with ideas, but you don't want to
as a VP.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Is a delicate balance.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
You know, you don't want to overshadow the president, but
you need to be there to put the pieces in places.
She has done that, and some of the criticism is
like come on, give me a break.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Well, you know, I don't like the way she laughed.
I don't like the want.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
That's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
They'll be like, she has a white husband. I don't
know why black people are celebrating this. I've seen that.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
And that's all of that. You know, let me tell
you something that we have to be honest about it.
You know, we need to have these real conversations that
some of us wake up and look in the mirror.
We don't like what they see, and they turn it
on to people that look like them. You know, she
she has a real solid credentials. And if we keep
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the main thing, the main thingocused on the topics, there's
always a reason not to like someone, right, But let's
not be creative.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
Who do you think would be a good VP for her?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Some good, some good picks out there.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
I don't even want to throw out names because then
all of a sudden, you know, you get on the
whole committee. You know, so I think, but there's some
good folks out there to do so. I don't know
if if the country is ready for.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
A woman and woman I said the same thing.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I said, it's already a very misogynistic, sexist, place, because
there are definitely people who even women who are like
I don't want a woman to be president. Yeah, some
people didn't want Joe Biden to win just in case
Kamala had to.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
Take like we thought, we knew it was gonna happens.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
And listen, Eric Adams, you are always in the news
and getting criticized. I know, you know what it's like.
Hajia is just getting nice and tough now well.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
Always, Well, you know, in this business, you do the
best you can and you give it your all.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
And I give it my all every day.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
And I love being mayor of the city, helping people
in the real way. And when I look at some
of the stuff we're doing. When I was with those
brothers up at Ryker's Island and just sitting next to
them as we were rebaptized, and them seeing that, you know, hey,
this brother is sitting next to us, you know, and
saying that, hey, I am you, or when I am
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what I'm doing with foster care children. People knew what
was happening the foster care children when they aged out,
were giving them life coaches into the twenty one panic
college tuition and giving them a siphon. But when you
look at these real things, it just you know you're
here for a reason.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
I'm continuing with David Dinkins.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Started took us thirty years to get another mayor of color,
and I'm going to make sure that I deliver as
much as possible from mwbe's six billion dollars in mwbees.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
These are unheard of affordable housing. This is a huge situation.
I feel like I'm always defending you to people, so
I want.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
To talk about something you are and it's wrong with that.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Yeah, since you brought up Rikers Island, I know one
of the big topics that people have brought up about
that is solitary confinement, right, and so the way that
and so the way that it's framed is Eric Adams.
They wanted this city council wanted to get rid of
solitary confinement, but you didn't want to. I love this topic,
So I want you to explain what it is that
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you think it should happen, and what you had to
say about keeping people safe, but what the whole thing
was solitary confinement at Rikers Island.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
I'm so glad you did because the first of all,
there is no solitary confinement in New York State. It
has been banned, right, and it's in humane and barbaric
to place people in solitary confinement. What they did, What
people are doing is a bait and switch. They know
that the term solitary confinement hits at our emotion, so
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they're calling what they attempted to do in solitary confinement.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Y'all know what.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
There is no solitary confinement. What there is called punitive segregation.
And I don't care if it's in a cell or
give somebody a whole room. If if you assault, slash
someone in the face on the street, what do we do.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
We arrest you, We take you out of general population.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
If you slash someone in jail, people are saying, let
them stay in the population of the prisoners eighty percent
over eighty percent of the prisoners who are people who
are assaulting on Rank Island, other prisoners, other prisoners are saying, yo,
get here.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
May is my kid now.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
I talk to somebody who was locked up and he
told me he was like, the problem in jail is
that there are people who are really violent who do
think they.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Can't be around.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
But so punitive segregation is what it is. But it's
not the same as solitary.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
What's the difference.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Besides what's the solitary confinement.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
You're placing someone in a small cell by themselves, not
allowing them interaction, and not letting them out of the cells.
It's inhumane to do. It plays on your psyche. It
could really cause real mental health issues. So you move
someone in punitive segregation, you're taking them out of general
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population because again they are assaulting of the inmates. I
when you talk to other inmates, they tell you this
guy is off the charge. So that what they want
to propose two dangerous parts of this that even the
monitor saying is dangerous. They want to propose someone slashes someone,
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they stay in that population.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
They stay in general population. That's just say yea.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
The second thing they want to propose is that when
correction officers, who are predominantly black and Hispanic, almost forty
something percent are women. They're saying when they transport large
number of prisoners down to court that they can't restrain them.
They can sit there without any restraints at all. You
will never transport a prisoner in the back of a police.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Car without putting handcuffs on them.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
So how are we say into these black and brown
officers that you're gonna tru transf for twelve thirteen fourteen
people in a bus to court, and you cannot be
restrained while you're going to court. People have beef up there.
They want to attack other prisoners. It's a public safety issue.
So the ideal that they had was real there. But
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idealism collides with realism when you have to hand it out.
It's a special monitor that's in charge of correction. They
wrote a letter say this is dangerous. You can't do this,
you know, so we can do it in a humane way,
but we need to do it right.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
And city council and you guys, you have been butting
heads with city council, and so I want to get
into that a little bit. I was looking at something
that Tosa posted also today and that was about advice
and consents, right, So can you explain to us what
advice and consent is and what's going on with Eric
Adams versus city council because it feels like they say
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you override things and then they override you.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
So I want you to talk about that.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
That's so important, Speaker, Agent Adams, my high school classmate
is the first African American woman to be the speaker.
I'm the second African American mayor. We are both in
power at the same time. Unprecedented never has to happen
before in the history of the city. And we had
unprecedented crises, COVID two hundred and seven thousand migrants and
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asylum seekers, a seven point one billion dollar deficit in
our budget.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
When you look at what we have accomplished, it's remarkable.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
And ninety six percent of the things that we come
up against we agree on what we have done around libraries,
cultural institutions, et cetera. But when you have an energy
that number one.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
People are pischeduff that you got these.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Two prominent blue collar, working class families that are now
running the most important city on the globe. So they
are trying to feed Oh look at them. All they
doing is we have the most women in the history
of the city council.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
We have the most people of color in the history
of the city council.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
So there's this belief out there that, Okay, we want
to show that they can't manage and government.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
When you look at.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Our successes, it's unbelievable what we have accomplished and so
there are going to be bills that we disagree on,
and they are mechanisms in place that if I say
I disagree on the bill the city Council, they have
the power with a supermajority, to override me.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
That's the nature of the business.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
I have the power whenever I want to put something
on the charter Commission of this is when you're able
to tell that the public here you want to vote
on something we believe should be in our charter.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
I have the power to do that. So we both
have different.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
Powers that allow us to navigate the politics of things.
And so this advice and consent build what they're saying.
You're elected, you're responsible for the agencies carrying out their jobs.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
They say.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
They're saying, we want to your commissioners, we want to
pick the people who you appoint to be in charge
of agencies.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
And I'm sing, hold up here.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
You know, when the garbage is not picked up, people
are not looking for the city council members.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
They're looking for the mayor.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
And I want to be able to go to my
commissioner and say, listen, you got to get this right.
If crime is going through the through the room, they're
not saying okay, well, let's go to see the city council.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
They said, man, what are you doing about it?
Speaker 5 (13:24):
We're this has been tried before in the city and
it kept being knocked down. And all of these folks
who are knowledgeable about government are all coming out saying,
can't do that. You have tried that before historically, everybody
say it can't be that way. The mayor should pick
his commissioners, and he should be responsible for those commissioners.
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Now they already have Authorization and improving and two commissions,
Department of Investigation and the Court Council.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
We have to get approval for them.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Right now, we're seeing what we want to put them
forward a Court council. It's being held up some of
the council people without even talking to who we're putting
in place.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
I said, we didn't want to talk to him. We
don't even want to sit down and speak with him.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
Okay, you know, so imagine every commissioner becomes a jocking
back and forth the political and I gotta I have
to run the city.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
It's kind of like what the federal government's like exactly exactly.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Think about it there you go on a different scale.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
No It's good because I think I read a lot
of articles, and I'm always paying attention to what's going
on in New York because I'm a New Yorker for life,
and so i do feel like I need to listen.
And I'm shout out to jail downstairs. She said, could
you please ask the mayor why they not giving out
tickets anymore?
Speaker 4 (14:36):
For alternate side parking in the streets not getting clean.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
I don't know, you know, it goes to show you,
you know. I like to say, we have eight point
three million New York's thirty five million opinions. You know,
no matter what you do, there's other folks who said,
why are you giving out to you?
Speaker 4 (14:52):
But I said, I'd rather than not get a ticket.
But She's like, but the street's not getting clean.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
No, they getting Let me tell you something. I'm going
after my number one enemy.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
The rats. I did a home Reportela.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
No, but I do want to say, what a simple solution, right,
Let's make people put their garbage and containers and containers
by the way, one of the funniest press conferences where
you came out and you rolled up the garbage can.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
They wanted five years to do it and the commissioner
and I and our rats are.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
We said, nope, we need to ride away. Right. We're
going to do it in less than three years.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
We're going to containerize our garbage, which is going to
have a major impact on Rodi.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
You know how many said when I posted that story,
so many people were weighing in, like, we hold on,
what were.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Y'all doing with your garbage before this?
Speaker 6 (15:41):
Listen? And I said that y'all put it on the
South I'm telling you.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
And I said, and I said, you actually can't be
mad at the mayor for this because this has never
happened before. But I'm gonna tell you what the problem
is to Also, people be stealing garbage kids, and we
used to have to write our address on it, address
on it chain the garbage can. How do you prevent
something like that? Because you know, you put that garbage
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can out, you got a nice new shiny garbage can.
Speaker 6 (16:07):
Somebody want that and they want more than one garbage canton.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
Yeah, and the beauty is now now that everyone would
will have one. Then the incentive bized you know, yeah,
everybody right right right?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
I like that.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
In DC, we have to come we put ours in our.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Ben and then you put it in an alley and
then they come down to alley and they pick everyone's trash.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
I never don't have alleys, I know.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
But I've never seen trash on it wild.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
That's what people say when I go to European countries
and they say, plastic bags do and they have bins.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
So we're really catching up.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
And no one thought they could be done, but we said, yes,
we are, you know, and by November, seventy seventy percent
of our garbage is going to be in bens.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Okay, good.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
We're dropping down the course of the Benz less than
the retail price because they got an exclusive contract. It's
going to lower it below retail price and it's just
going to be a game changer in unsightlyedness. Nothing could
disrupt your day more than the rat.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Listen, I won't go to work if I come outside.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Is it?
Speaker 4 (17:12):
I'm sorry, I can't make it into today. Are you serious?
Speaker 3 (17:15):
You know?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Ben man, Ben run across your feet walking.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
In the middle of the street, in the middle of
the street because I can't take it anymore.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
Listen, we want and we want to make a major impact,
and we are. We are the rats are We're seeing
a decrease in rats and.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Not with that job. Yeah, I would not want that job.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
It's terrified her.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Now let's talk about these illegal cannabis shops, because we
saw you just shut some of those shops down, but
there's still like three thousand illegal cannabis shops. But I
do want to stress the importance of shutting those shops
down because guess what, you don't know what's in that
weed when you're going to these shops. So discuss that initiative,
because it is certainly a problem. And how are you
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supposed to know if a shop that you're going to
is illegal?
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Right? Great question.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
What when we passed when they passed us the cannabis
law in Aubany, you know, every day folks just heard
that is legal. So everybody started opening shops, and you're right,
about three thousand open. And we went back to Aubany
two years in the rug. Hats up to Assembly women
Jennifer Raj Kamar who really pushed this smoke out of
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legislation to say we got to close these shops. And
they gave us the power of now combining our sheriffs,
who had the job only for the most part, with
police department. By deputizing them now it's allowing us to
really go and do some closing.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
We close over seven hundred and what we're finding now.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
The community is giving us a lot of tips like
we were able to We found five to ten million
dollars over the weekend see Saturday.
Speaker 7 (18:50):
Night, you know, and that's a good idea.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
To turnover whatever proceeds. That's a good idea.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
You know that if you if you've identified the place,
because you're right, this stuff is lace with any and
everything and it's really impacting our children. They are really
focusing on young people with edibles, mushrooms, and it's really
having an impact. So we close seven hundred. We're really
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finding our groove now and closing. We're going to really
shut down these shops. And you know what's happening, you're
setting an increase in the profits from the legal shops
that now they no longer have to compete with the
illegal shops. But we over the weekend, we went to
a we got a tip about a deli. We walked
through the store. In the back they had a couple
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of million dollars of cannabis, pre rolls, mushrooms, edibles. You
got to see this stuff they happen.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Wow, what is it called when you have the fake
bar in there? What is it called a cafe place?
Speaker 4 (20:06):
And they have a secret room like they had like
the speak Easy.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Speak Easy. They had one of the deli.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
And I mean that room was connected to a couple
of doors were connected and the place we went to
on Sunday, Sunday morning around about two am in the morning,
it was a couple of blocks. Now on that block
they had seventy three one one calls from people complaining
about that location. Loud voices, I mean noise, you know,
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fight and when you walk inside. Remember those machines you
have when you go into the meat market, you pull
your number, you like, wait for your number.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
To be Yeah, they had one in there. Wow, you
know how busy it was.
Speaker 6 (20:45):
It's organized. I will get a license and trying to
get a license.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
But you know, getting a license is not easy. It's
not easy. It can be expensive. It's a way, there's
a lot of things you have to qualify rightfully, so though, yeah,
you know, and I don't think anybody should be able
to just get a license.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
And it's a process and it's.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Not fair for people who went through the process and
did the process the right way. Now people were mad
that you did drink Champs. I saw that too.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
I love drink my.
Speaker 6 (21:12):
Guys, you drink or smoke or anything. On the show,
I had a kind of kind did you have?
Speaker 2 (21:20):
You know those are like those are guys?
Speaker 6 (21:23):
Yeah, but what are you what I'm asking?
Speaker 2 (21:25):
I like titose, I'm a guy. You ale, yeah, and
you know what this is? You know what? You know
what the.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
Problem is that I that I've watched people believe when
you when you're elected, you have to be and and
and you know this perfect person. I'm trying to say
the folks, no, man, stop this man Like sometimes I'll
be out and I would be smoking the cigars and
some titos, and people say, oh, you can't take a
picture like that.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
The hell I can smoke.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
A lot of politicians do that, though They'll be like,
hold on, I can't have a drink in the picture.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
People want a real people dealing with real problems.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
I'm you know, I'm who What you see is what
you get. Because if you don't, if you don't try
to hide who you are, you.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Got to be worried about somebody hiding behind the car
and say, look, look I got you know, I told
you all from the beginning. You know, I am who
I am, and I'm the everyday cat. Like late at
night DJ would know. Sometimes we running late at night
and I'll see a barbershop that's closed down in the
back doing some Hennessy and cooler.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Now, I said, oh, let's fall up in there.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
They be like, no, you don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
They welcome us in and we shuit down and engauge.
But that's the type of leadership we need.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
I saw you said Kamala Harris should be herself, right,
because a lot of times though I do feel like
for Kamala Harris though with the stage that she's on
there she gets a lot of unfair critics. She's a
black woman, yeah right, and don't descand like you said,
also and people are definitely got all kinds of awful
things to say about her, and so that makes it
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harder for her to be who she is.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
But you know what, haters are not going to be
with you no matter how you.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Change, because it's that angry black woman Trump. So you
can't even like she's angry. She like even how Donald Trump,
you see, he's so nervous he does not wanted.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
To bang her. He's saying the worst things.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
You know how you call her dumb And I'm like, sir,
if anybody have no reason.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
If anything, he's going to energize folks because when you
would listen, like I said, she could do the sister
girl thing and she could go and do the intellectual things.
We wear many hats, and that's what we need. If
you're going to go in to deal with real problems,
you have to be authentic about it. And that's what
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I'm hoping. I'm hoping whoever comes after me, whoever falls
into these other spots, corporate spots, don't.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Abandon who you are.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
You know, for so many years we had to talk differently,
walk differently.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
We don't want to be ourselves, but other folks can
be themselves into Yeah, like the head of Goldman Sacks,
he's a DJ. Yeah he's a DJ. Is he a
good DJ? Well, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
But he's comfortable enough in his skin to say, I
want to do what I like. Why do we have
to abandon what we like because we want to fit in?
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Listen, I became the mayor. I didn't change from the
day I ran for office. To who I am. I'm
the same person, and I.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Will say that's very true.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
And one thing I always say about mayor Eric Adams
is he might say something that people think it's crazy,
but he means it.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
And sometimes also maybe a.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Little bit of a maybe I shouldn't have said that,
but it is what it is, because that's life.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Do you ever do you have regrets? And I'm not
gonna ask you what do you have regrets about things
that you say?
Speaker 5 (24:47):
Sometimes everyone has a great regrets, and yes I do,
because you know, there's a lot of emotion here and
you know, you see the hypocrisy and sometimes when you
call people on their sho they can't handle it, you know.
And I'm not going to sit back and you're not
going to urinate or mean tell me his rain.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
You know, it's awful.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Clear.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Let's be clear that.
Speaker 5 (25:15):
You know, there's so much hypocrisy in this game, and
everybody's afraid to call it when they see it.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
And I'm just not going to do that because this
doesn't last forever.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
A day when the show is over and I want
to look back over and say I was authentic with
my stuff, man.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
And I got rid of the rats.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
I hired the first ever rat zar. That's a big deal.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Now, let's also talk about these upcoming elections for you,
because I know you're getting ready definitely out raising money
when it comes to everybody else who has thrown their
hat and formed their exploratory committees and potentially, you know,
running against you. So let's discuss what is Mayor Eric
Adams planning to do and what can you say? This
is what we accomplished this term, and this is what
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we still have to work on.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Nobo said. And the thing is, you know people are
in the race.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
You know I outraised everyone that's running combined. Okay, you
know when you put all of that money, I raised them.
And it was important because people want to say all
his support is eroded, it all, no one is with them.
Folks said, listen, man, I'm donating to you, Eric because
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I want people to know.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
I want them to see my name.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Because if you hear people tell it, they're like, people
do not like Eric Adams.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
They'll talk about polls.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
He's got the lowest polling since they started doing the
polls as a mayor.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
But you noise and I had the hardest decisions, you know,
trust me. People are angry about the micras and asylum
seekers because they feel listen, they taking everything from us.
A lot of people didn't know the facts that I
couldn't stop the buses. I can't let them work. I'm
required by Lord, the feed clothed house, educate. And now
people are starting to pick up and say, wait a minute,
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wait a minute. We didn't know that, right, And that's
what I hear the most from people. We're out there
doing shows like these, doing town halls, I'm hearing people
more and more and say, wait, man, I didn't know that.
I didn't know that you cut black unemployment of black
unemployments now below eight percent from the first time since twenty.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
Nine black and Latino and black and Latino unemployment.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Our children outpacing the entire stadium reading the math.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
Like I said, what we're doing with dyslexias screen is
so thirty to forty percent of our inmates is not
going to be sitting in jail because they didn't get
early diagnosis. What we do in my food a big thing,
big with you feeding our children and hospitals, healthy food,
small businesses, more small businesses in the history of the city.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Folks back on the subway system.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
Think about it. People thought Manhattan was never going to
be what it.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Was before, and it was yeah, and look at it
now like all these different businesses. But I will say
I do see businesses having issues with people stealing and
everything getting locked up, and what.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Do we do about that?
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Because that's really tough for some businesses that even have
had to close.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
A tough issue, a national crisis that we're facing with shoplifting.
All of my mayors across the country is telling me
about the same thing. It's the recidivism. We have five
hundred and forty two people that they have been arrested
seventy six hundred times. They have become too comfortable with
going in stealing items. We've partnered with with a lot
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of our businesses. We started a pilot in Harlem where
folks are connecting cameras right to the pre censor. We
could identify them. But it's a real recidivism recidivism problem.
People are stealing over and over and over again over again.
Now I think it's an indictment or society when you
have to lock up your razor blazers.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
Oh my gosh. Sometimes I'd be like just forgetting.
Speaker 6 (28:42):
I hadn't stand all because there's something else.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Ione, can you come with me to the next time
somebody to come.
Speaker 6 (28:47):
It's usually like and.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
You can't even do self check out in some places
anymore because people are stealing.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:52):
No, shoplifting is a real issue and it hurts the
business and it hurts people when they close down. We
lose employees and then miss zones have to get on
the bus to go get up medicine. You know, an
elder was telling me in Harlem. She says, I should
be able to walk right down the block to my drugstore.
Now have to take a bus ride to my location.
And so there's a lot of people that say, well,
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you're criminalizing the poor of when you're wrestling for shoplifting.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Now, I'm not trying to buy that. You're criminalizing those.
Speaker 5 (29:20):
Who are being laid off or lose their jobs, or
my seniors who have to travel far. You know, you
should not be going to being repeated shoplifters. If there
are things you need their mechanisms to get those things.
And so it's a real problem for small businesses and
it hurts their bottom line.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Absolutely, you know, I tad Jasmine on the train the
other day to come to work. We took the train
hair and back because you know, I live two blocks
in the train, and sometimes it's just easier. But now
I want to talk about what's being implemented, because I
feel like people discuss the New York City subway like
it is the worst thing.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
It's dangerous right right now. We did have to hear
a couple of sermons on the chain.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
We had a concert saying the drums going and everything.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Yeah, I feel like we've somebody asked me for my
phone number. I'm like, you know, they ask for pictures.
The morning is not bad, it's the evening.
Speaker 6 (30:12):
It's kind of like.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
That's just for me.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
And but anyway, I did have Jasmine on the train
and she's like, I'm going to start doing this more
frequently because it was so much convenience, so much more convenient, relaxing,
And people do my name business for the most.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
They do, they do think about the full moment. We
have four point one million daily riders, four point one million.
We have an average of five felonies a day on
the train. With four point one million, we have less
robberies on our subway system. Now in the history of
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the city these we had one month January when we
saw a bump and I put a thousand new offices
down there. The governor and I partner together. July, we're
going to have six straight months of decreasing crime in
our subway system. The is are those with severe mental
health issues. You see them and they begin to define.
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Then you read the stories, you believe that that's the reality.
So we're getting ready to do a whole program called Scout,
and we're going to really give people the help they
need because listen, if you're yelling at yourself unkept walking
the cold with no shoes on, you need help for sure.
And we have subscribed to this theory in this city
that just ignore them, act that we don't see them.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
And our administration said no.
Speaker 5 (31:30):
We moved over seventy seventy six hundred people of our
subway system and brought them in care. A thousand are
still in care. But we take we have taken a
very forward thinking approach that is inhumane and have people
living in these conditions.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
And the other thing you guys have is now screening.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Yes, right, so tell me about that being implemented like this,
I see AI screening weapons.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
This is some good. This is some good stuff. This
is not.
Speaker 5 (31:56):
The airport type screen and we have to stop the
put stuff out on the table and all that good stuff.
Speaker 6 (32:01):
This is not that that would take forever.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Right, you just walked through.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
And the beauty of it, if you're carrying a gun
on your waist, on your ankle, or a fanny pack,
it shows you exactly where the gun is.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
It's unbelievable.
Speaker 6 (32:15):
Take so then alerts yes, and.
Speaker 5 (32:17):
Somebody's going to be there looking at a screen when
people just walk.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Through, they're regularly swipe your metric card and just walk through.
Speaker 5 (32:25):
If you when you walk through these two columns, it
would show you that, hey, his it shows a little
red square, here's where gun is carried.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
We tested it a couple of thousand times.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
And every time about how many stations are going to
have this. Initially we're going to start out with one.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
We're going to grow to five, and then it's mobile
so you can move it around.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
And yeah, yeah, yes, yes.
Speaker 5 (32:49):
I clearly believe the future is going to be that
these are going to be right in your turnstiles and
when people come through the turnstile, they're going to be
able to pick it up.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
This is some great technology.
Speaker 6 (33:00):
And let me look at I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (33:01):
When you look at it, it's really impressive to see
that square of where the gun actually is.
Speaker 6 (33:07):
Do any other cities do this yet or not?
Speaker 5 (33:09):
Of my knowledge, I think we're the first that's doing it,
and we have the largest subway system. But people want
to feel safe. You don't want to be on the
car on the train. Somebody got a gun like that
that shot up.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
And oh my gosh, yeah that was wild. Yes, you know,
well listen this the mayor has to go.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
But I know you're going to keep on coming up
and love it because we have so many things to
talk to you.
Speaker 6 (33:30):
About this next time.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
When I'm hearing it's natural to kill to day, I
kind of feel.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Like I've never been a person.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
You know, I can't vote for you then, I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (33:43):
That's why I draw the line.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
Everything else is fine, But the.
Speaker 5 (33:47):
Beauty is like, I love how you get down to
the nitty gritty of the conversations.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
A lot of people read.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
The headlines and it turns into their reality. Man, folks
ain't gonna write anything good about this administration.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
You know a lot of things are going to get
implemented now that we're not gonna see actually the results
from until later, like talking about the AI and the trains,
talking about affordable house and talking about these development projects
that are in the work.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
So somebody else is gonna get.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Credit for that later, and when the bad things happen,
you get credit for that because you came into office
during the time. One thing I will say one of
my friends is like, the problem with the mayor is
that he has a big ego.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
That's what I heard somebody.
Speaker 6 (34:30):
Yes, not expect that.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
About it for a moment that people expected us not to.
Speaker 5 (34:39):
You better have a big ego to wake up every
day and deal with two hundred and seven thousand micro
seekers in New Yorkers, folks who stepped in you all
the time. Mother told me as a child boy, you
better believe in yourself. That's right, you know what I'm saying,
And we should be telling all of our young boys
and girls. Believe in yourself. Believe in yourself. If if
(35:01):
if I didn't believe in myself, I would have listened
to the narrative that stated because you are dyslexic, you're
not you're not smart enough.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
You can't do this, you can't do that. You better
every day.
Speaker 5 (35:12):
You should wake up, reinforce it, some type of affirmation
that tells you, no matter what you go through, you can't.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Mom did that. She worked three jobs on her arthritic
knees and never complained.
Speaker 5 (35:24):
She bought that little house for us in Queens and
so South Jamaica Queens and people say, when you're doing doctee,
why you why don't you just go on social service?
She says, no, you know I'm gonna do this for
my children.
Speaker 4 (35:35):
And now you're gonna get that tattoo on your chest. Yes, yes,
oh my gosh, we have to see this. Listen if
you cry or something.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Would have been fine until you told me. It hurts, you.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
Know right here, Christ, But you.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Know now you're don't psyche me up.
Speaker 6 (36:00):
You've made the worst that He's crazy though.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Love it, love it.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
Good. Good to see you too. I can't wait to see.
I know you're going to check back.
Speaker 5 (36:06):
In next Yes, yes, I'm gonna come back and I'll
be probably be showing you my tattoo by then.
Speaker 4 (36:10):
Oh gosh, all right, well, hopefully you don't say this
hurts too much. I can't finish because I will do that.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
That's it, all right, Adam, way up
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