Mayor Eric Adams called for subway metal detectors after the Brooklyn shooting.
Mayor Eric Adams just had a bad week. It wasn’t that anything particularly awful happened last week, fortunately — an unusual spell sadly broken by the death Sunday of firefighter Timothy Klein in Brooklyn. It’s that without the constant stimulation of crisis, all the mayor’s worst traits were on display. If he wants to be a successful mayor, he’d better stop using it as a crutch.
Bad trait #1: hiding behind techno-gimmicks. Adams, the mayor who converted his first paycheck this year into cryptocurrency and once displayed a vat of drowned rats to hype a new way of controlling rodents, thinks that unproven tech is going to save the subways.
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Nicole Gelinas is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor at City Journal. Follow her on Twitter here.
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