布鲁克林地铁枪击案发生几天后，纽约市市长埃里克·亚当斯告诉美国广播公司“本周”主播乔治·斯特凡诺普洛斯，最近犯罪的增加超出了他的城市，称之为“国家问题”。
“你知道，我一遍又一遍地说，有许多河流孕育了暴力之海。这是一个全国性的问题，”亚当斯在被斯特凡诺普洛斯问到今年纽约市重大犯罪上升的问题时说。“不是红州，是蓝州。事实上，红州的谋杀率比蓝州高。”
62岁的弗兰克·詹姆斯被指控在周二早上向纽约地铁车厢开枪后，在一辆公共交通工具上实施了恐怖行为。10人被枪杀，枪击事件引发了对詹姆斯30个小时的追捕，然后他给自己打电话阻止犯罪。
纽约市警察局长基钱特·休厄尔在与亚当斯的联合采访中告诉斯特凡诺普洛斯，她认为詹姆斯打给举报热线的电话表明，在他自首之前，“我们正在接近他”。
“我们传播了他的照片...我们有很多人在找他，数百名侦探在找他，”休厄尔说。“但我认为关键因素之一也是我们的力量倍增器，它是我们不可思议的纽约人的眼睛和耳朵。”
斯特凡诺普洛斯说，詹姆斯在枪击发生前似乎“藏在众目睽睽之下”，并指出他曾多次被捕，并在YouTube上发布了“充满仇恨和暴力建议”的视频。
“我们是否需要一种更好的方法，在这些人采取暴力行动之前跟踪他们?”斯特凡诺普洛斯问道。
亚当斯说，社交媒体公司在追踪像詹姆斯这样的人时“必须加强”。
“当我们在网上观看仇恨酿造时，有一种企业责任，”亚当斯说。“我们可以使用人工智能和其他方法来识别那些谈论暴力的人。”
尽管上周发生了袭击和过境犯罪与2021年相比，今年上升了68%Sewell告诉Stephanopoulos，与COVID之前的数字相比，纽约市地铁上的犯罪率实际上是下降了。尽管如此，她还是试图让地铁上的警察更加显眼。
“我们认识到人们需要在地铁里看到明显的警察存在，我们正在努力确保这一点，”Sewell说。“还有我们看不到的安全措施，但我们知道这种保证是必要的。我们每天都在地铁里安排多名警察。”
亚当斯是前NYPD队长，于1月1日上任，作为一名严厉打击犯罪的民主党人，他拒绝了围绕犯罪和警务的进步政策，如“解除警察基金”运动。
上周，曾在朱利安尼和白思豪市长政府任职的前纽约警察局长比尔·布拉顿(Bill Bratton)在彭博的一次播客中说，“目前的天平非常倾向于进步左翼的改革。用心良苦，有些需要，但有点过了。”
布拉顿说，其结果是犯罪率上升和对犯罪的恐惧，“几乎在美国的每一个主要城市都有证据”
"布拉顿委员说得对吗?"斯特凡诺普洛斯问亚当斯。
“是的，我相信他是对的，”亚当斯回答道。“多年来犯下的重大错误摧毁了警察局长所说的信任。我们必须重建这种信任。但是我们不能通过允许那些危险的、有暴力前科的人继续出现在我们的街道上来重建这种信任，”
休厄尔表示同意，说:“我们不能忽视犯罪的受害者。我们相信这个系统必须是公平和平衡的，但是当我们忽视了犯罪的受害者，我们就没有做公共安全应该做的事情。”
After subway shooting, New York City mayor says rise in crime a 'national issue'
Days after the subway shooting in Brooklyn, New York City Mayor Eric Adams told ABC "This Week" Anchor George Stephanopoulos that the recent increase in crime extends beyond his city, calling it a "national issue."
"You know, I say over and over again, there are many rivers that feed the sea of violence. This is a national issue," Adams said when pressed by Stephanopoulos on the rise in major crimes within New York City this year. "It's not a red state, blue state. In fact, red states are experiencing a higher murder rate than blue states."
Frank James, 62, was charged with committing a terrorist act on a mass transportation vehicle after opening fire on a New York subway car Tuesday morning. Ten people were shot, and the shooting launched a 30-hour manhunt for James before he called Crime Stoppers on himself.
New York City Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell told Stephanopoulos during a joint interview with Adams she thought James' call to the tip line indicated that "we were kind of closing in around him" before he turned himself in.
"We disseminated his picture... we had a number of people looking for him, hundreds of detectives looking for him," Sewell said. "But I think one of the key factors also is our force multiplier, which are the eyes and ears of our incredible New Yorkers."
Stephanopoulos said James seemed to be "hiding in plain sight" before the shooting, noting he had been arrested several times and had posted videos to YouTube "packed with hate and suggestions of violence."
"Do we need a better way to track individuals like this before they take this violent action?" Stephanopoulos asked.
Adams said social media companies "must step up" when it comes to tracking people like James.
"There's a corporate responsibility when we are watching hate brew online," Adams said. "We can identify using artificial intelligence and other methods to identify those who are talking about violence."
Despite last week's attack and transit crimerising 68% this year compared to 2021, Sewell told Stephanopoulos that crime on the subways in New York City is actually down compared to the pre-COVID numbers. Still, she is trying to make police presence on the subways more visible.
"We recognize that people need to see a visible presence of police in the subway and we're endeavoring to make sure that that happens," Sewell said. "There's also security measures that we don't see, but we understand that that reassurance is required. And we're putting multiple officers in the subways every single day."
Adams, a former NYPD captain who took office on Jan. 1, ran as a tough-on-crime Democrat and has rejected progressive policies around crime and policing, like the "defund the police" movement.
Last week, former New York Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, who served under the Giuliani and de Blasio mayoral administrations, told a Bloomberg podcast, "The scales right now are tipped very heavily in favor of the reforms of the progressive left. Well-intended, some needed, but a bit too far."
Bratton said the result is rising crime and fear of crime "as evidenced in almost every major American city."
"Is Commissioner Bratton right?" Stephanopoulos asked Adams.
"Yes, I believe he is right," Adams responded. "Major mistakes made throughout the years that destroyed the trust that the police commissioner is talking about. We have to rebuild that trust. But we can't rebuild that trust by allowing those who are dangerous and that have -- they have a repeated history of violence to continue to be on our streets."
Sewell agreed, saying, "We cannot lose sight of the victims of crime. We believe the system has to be fair and balanced, but when we lose sight of the victims of crime, we are not doing what public safety is intended to do."
