NYPD commissioner resigns: Eric Adams may not survive this.
SlateThis story was originally published on Ross Barkan’s Substack Political Currents. Federal prosecutors don’t typically like to hand down local indictments close to an election, and Adams is slated to seek reelection in the June 2025 Democratic primary. It’s also plausible that Adams, who had the lowest approval rating of any New York mayor in Quinnipiac University’s polling history, has inculcated a culture of corruption at City Hall and the bill, as the old cliché goes, is coming due. Unlike de Blasio in 2016, Adams was given no speaking role at the Democratic National Convention, and it’s clear the Biden administration wants nothing to do with him after he criticized its handling of the migrant crisis and failed, for many months, to manage the influx in New York. Lincoln Restler, a prominent liberal in the City Council, and Robert Holden, a conservative Democrat who campaigns on the Republican line, united to call on Caban, Adams’ scandal-scarred police commissioner, to resign.
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