Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner at City Hall in Houston, Feb. 8, 2023.
Lightfoot and Bass belong to an informal alliance of four big-city mayors tackling among the toughest jobs in America. They happen to be of similar mind in how to address their cities’ common problems, like violent crime, homelessness and rising overdose deaths. “We have to be bold in looking at long entrenched problems, particularly on poverty and systemic inequality,” Lightfoot said. “We’ve got to look those in the face and we’ve got to fight them, and break down the barriers that have really held many of our residents back from being able to realize their God-given talent.”Bass was a community organizer who witnessed the riots after the Rodney King verdict; Adams drew attention to police brutality after being beaten by the police as a teenager.
In Chicago and New York, Lightfoot and Adams have pushed for police spending increases and have flooded public transportation with officers. That has invited criticism from criminal justice advocates who say they have not moved quickly enough to reform the departments. Maurice Mitchell, the national director of the Working Families Party, a prominent left-leaning group, said the mayors’ lived experience was all the more reason for them to “take a more expansive view of Black life that is expressed in their policies and in their budgeting,” and to prioritize schools, libraries, youth jobs and mental health care.
“Because we’re still experiencing firsts in 2023, it’s our obligation that we’re successful,” said Frank Scott Jr., the first elected Black mayor of Little Rock, Arkansas, who leads the African American Mayors Association. “It’s our obligation that to the best of our ability we’re above reproach, to ensure that we’re not the last and to ensure that it doesn’t take another 20 to 30 years to see another Black mayor.
A similar law in New York has stalled in the state Legislature, although supporters are hoping to pass it this year and have called on Adams to do more to help them. “I applaud him on that,” Turner said. “Is it controversial or some people will find controversy in it? Yes. But what is the alternative? To keep them where they are?”
Are they going to finally reduce the violence that's been plaguing these cities for years All the funding they ask for and violence has not decreased! You can't buy class
Yawn
So
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Of course the four largest cities are riddled with crime.
I can't nor won't say black mayor's are bad. But NYC and Chicago picked some losers.
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