Mayor Adams stated Tuesday that he’s against a Nationwide Guard takeover in New York Metropolis as President Trump threatens to increase federal management of regulation enforcement past Washington D.C.
“We don’t need anyone to come in and take over our law enforcement apparatus,” Adams stated at a press convention within the Bronx on Tuesday morning. “We’ve the best police division on the globe.
The president introduced on Monday he put the Washington, D.C. police division beneath federal management to “take our capital back,” after which stated he’d additionally “look at other cities,” naming New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Baltimore and Oakland.
Trump invoked a federal override potential beneath D.C. legal guidelines. Utilizing federal troops in native regulation enforcement different cities, together with New York, raises authorized questions, and the legality of their deployment is at present on trial in California.
Whereas Adams stated the current Midtown capturing “sends a signal” that crime is an issue within the metropolis, that notion doesn’t match up with the info. “Those headlines give the wrong impression,” the mayor stated. “New York is moving in the right direction in public safety.”
Metropolis officers have touted low crime numbers this summer time, together with drops in murders and gun violence, in addition to the general crime charge.
Adams did observe that the federal authorities may assist struggle crime within the metropolis with tighter gun legal guidelines or federal grants.
“If the federal government wants to assist us in really navigating some of the laws around easily accessibility to automatic weapons… there is some assistance we can get from the federal government,” he stated.
The mayor stated that his public security deputy, Kaz Daughtry, has been in “continuous communications” about public security, together with with the feds. Daughtry, together with NYPD Chief John Chell, met with Trump at a New Jersey golf course in June.
Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani, who this week has a slate of anti-Trump marketing campaign occasions throughout the town, stated that he would resist Trump’s makes an attempt to intrude with the town.
“Donald Trump is not above the law and if he comes for New York City, he will have to go through me,” Mamdani stated in an announcement on Tuesday. “As Mayor, I will not downplay or enable his authoritarianism — and I certainly will not tell New Yorkers not to “overreact” as Andrew Cuomo did when Trump’s militia tried to bulldoze Los Angeles.”
New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks throughout a press convention on the 1199SEIU headquarters on August 11, 2025 in New York Metropolis. (Picture by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Pictures)
Mamdani stated at a press convention in Brooklyn earlier Tuesday that he’s prepared to work with the president in good religion whilst he stays strenuously against his immigration and financial agendas.
“If Donald Trump wants to pick up the phone and say that he wants to deliver on the cheaper groceries that he ran on, I’m willing to work with him on that,” Mamdani stated. “It just can never be a partnership at the expense of the people of this city.”
Former governor Andrew Cuomo, who’s working for mayor on an unbiased line, stated Monday on social media that Trump would “flatten [Mamdani] like a pancake.”
With Chris Sommerfeldt
Initially Printed: August 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM EDT
