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NEW YORK (77WABC) — Former NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly slammed Mayor Eric Adams on Sunday, accusing him of dropping the ball on rampant crime in the Big Apple and insisting, “this isn’t brain surgery.”
He appeared on Cats at Night hosted by 77WABC owner and operator John Catsimatidis.
“We were the safest big city in America just a few years ago,” Kelly said. “This isn’t brain surgery. “You go back and look at the things we were doing then and you re-implement them. But apparently, the mayor doesn’t want to do this.”
Kelly took particular issue with runaway subway and bus crimes in the five boroughs, saying the deployment of transit cops has to be “re-examined” by “an outside agency.” On Saturday, Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul said they plan to flood the subways with more MTA and NYPD cops through overtime shifts and additional surveillance cameras.
The city also will create new 25-bed units at two psych centers to get more mentally ill out of the underground and into proper shelters. The plan came days after Adams blamed the media for creating a false “perception” that city transit isn’t safe — an assertion roundly criticized.
NYPD crime stats show crime is up over 31% and transit crime is up 41% year over year for the week ending October 16.
