In big-city mayoral elections, attracting enough votes to win apparently matters.
, Buffalo, Cleveland and Seattle may simply be reacting to the data, according to the Post, which cited last week’s Pew Research Center poll that showed 47% of Americans want police to receive more funding, not less.
New York City's Democratic mayoral candidate, Eric Adams, greets NYPD officers in New York, July 7, 2021. Adams is a former NYPD captain. U.S. cities saw killings rise by 30% in 2020 – representing the largest single-year spike since the federal government began tracking the information in the 1960s, the newspaper reported.
Perhaps reflecting the shift in voter sentiment, New York City’s Democratic mayoral nominee, Eric Adams, is a former NYPD captain, while GOP nominee Curtis Sliwa is a longtime anti-crime civic activist.In Buffalo, far-left mayoral candidate India Walton – a community activist backed by U.S. Rep. , D-N.Y. – now emphasizes better police accountability and roles for mental health professionals in reducing crime rather than her previous calls for defunding police and profanity-laced shouting during anti-police protests, the Post reported.Nevertheless, Walton is trailing Byron Brown, Bufffalo's incumbent Democrat mayor, bydespite having defeated Brown in a June primary. Brown is now trying to retain his office as a write-in candidate.
"Mayoral candidates are being compelled to respond to realities on the ground," Bruce Katz, director of the Nowak Metro Finance Lab at Drexel University,
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