Mayor Adams Vetoes Police Transparency and Solitary Confinement Bills
www.nytimes.com
The New York City Council is likely to override the mayor’s vetoes despite his objections and fervent campaign to have the bills rescinded.
  • ArbitraryValueEnglish
    418·
    11 months ago

    Giuliani was a popular mayor. I think Adams would love to see a large drop in crime during his term and win reelection like Giuliani did.

    • frickineh@lemmy.world
      301·
      11 months ago

      Giuliani got “lucky” that he was in office on 9/11. He wasn’t a particularly good mayor and plenty of people knew it but he managed to turn that into a lot of goodwill. Now that he’s shown his ass repeatedly, people are losing the rose-tinted glasses big time. Adams just decided he wasn’t gonna wait 15 years to make people hate him. He’s an overachiever.

      • ArbitraryValueEnglish
        610·
        11 months ago

        Giuliani was re-elected before 9/11 because he was “tough on crime” and crime declined dramatically while he was in office. By the time 9/11 happened, he was not eligible to run for mayor again due to term limits.

        • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
          8·
          11 months ago

          Yeah, I remember him instituting blatantly unconstitutional policies like “stop and frisk”. I’m still not sure how he got away with it or how people didn’t realize he was a fascist.

          • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
            2·
            11 months ago

            He got lucky in that a lot of the reasons for the nationwide decrease in crime happened during his administration.

            You also had enough people in NYC happy that the city was becoming more orderly.

      • ArbitraryValueEnglish
        53·
        11 months ago

        He was elected mayor twice, both times before 9/11 (which happened only a few months before the end of his second term). After 9/11 he was never elected to any office again, despite his efforts.

        • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
          33·
          11 months ago

          Did you just now figure out the two party system usually results in a general with two options who are unpopular?

          Congrats? I guess someone figures it out every day…

          • ArbitraryValueEnglish
            51·
            11 months ago

            As a matter of fact, he was popular.

            Right before his re-election,

            Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s approval rating has edged up to an all-time 68 - 28 percent high, matching a record of 70 percent of New Yorkers who are “very satisfied” or “somewhat satisfied” with life in the city, according to a Quinnipiac College Poll released today.