WE WILL NOT SURRENDER OUR CITY TO THE VIOLENT FEW - MAYOR ERIC ADAMS.

ICHEOKU says but for the pitiful woke-politics on steroid former Mayor Bill de Blasio, the crime rate in New York City would not be as bad as it is today. A city which was once cleaned up by Mayor Rudy Guillain and which Mayor Mike Bloomberg successfully managed, until the unfortunate arrival of Bill de Blasio at city hall, is now tilting on a cliff's edge. It has deteriorated to a cesspool of violent crimes and needs a major cleaning house to get it back to a safe livability. Without safety there is no Big Apple where people are drawn to Broadway theaters, musical scenes, food, wine, culture and general New York ambiance. 

Even Central Park leisure is succumbing to this blithe and the new mayor must do whatever it takes to stop the bleeding and avoid the city from completely unraveling to what it used to be back in its dark 80s. ICHEOKU prays that Mayor Eric Adams will have the courage to stay his current course by resisting any pressure from Black Lives Matter and other black groups, including black pastors; and do what necessarily needs to be done in order to restore safety in New York City. The mayor should pay no attention to any distractive outcries and must refuse to be intimidated or blackmailed by any sector of the New York society.  He should also be careful not to fall into any trap which might bring him down. 

The only acceptable "root cause" of violent crime is that some people are criminals and they are violent, period. Nothing else qualifies as such or should be tolerated or used to either explain it away, or in trying to understand or make sense of why some people commit violent crimes. These violent few who commit these heinous acts are not the only people who are facing whatever life's situation and challenges they are embroiled in, but they made their choice. Therefore, it should not be seen as a function of being shortchanged in life or treated as a black people's unique problem, for black pressure groups to intervene or be listened to. There is no excuse for committing crimes and crimes should never be excused or made race sensitive. 

Mayor Eric Adams has a lot of cleaning up to do just because an over-pandering former beatnik Mayor Bill de Blasio, who excessively played the race card to struggle through his stay in the city hall, exacerbated the situation. He left a huge mess in every facet in New York for the new mayor, including a New York which has become a crime infested city. So far, the new mayor is talking right and acting right; and by restoring the Mayor Bill de Blasio disbanded crime fighting unit, regardless of its new name, Neighborhood Safety Team; the new mayor has shown that his heart is in the right place. He has also shown that he intends to govern as he campaigned and that he will keep his campaign promise of restoring sanity to New York City and lasso-down its spiraling out of control violent crimes.

It is true that New Yorkers now feel as if a sea of violence is engulfing their city. In fact, it is already drowning the Big Apple as what is going on is no longer a mere perception. The good news however is that blue now has a listening ear in the city hall and the new mayor has pledged not to let New York go under the churning wave of violent crimes. He promised to be the lifeguard on duty and will swim any needed extra miles to rescue New York City from drowning; and that under his watch, New York City going back to the horrible old days is not an option on his table. 

ICHEOKU says those animals ravaging New York City must not be allowed to win as they are too negligible to be allowed to force their will on a city of about ten million people. The mayor is right when he said that those merchants of death, who are "constantly carving highways of death and destroying our communities" in New York City must be stopped at all cost, using every available tool in the toolbox of the government. It is a challenge between New Yorkers and these urchins and they must be bloodied and forced to either leave town, abandon their trade in violence or be locked up in prison cages like the animals they are.

It is about New York City and no other; a city specially so uniquely that it can only be imitated but cannot be duplicated. New Yorkers must therefore seize the urgency of the now and take their city back from the violent band of marauders who have made the city unsafe for everyone. It is a task for every New Yorker, regardless of race, religion and politics. Therefore there should be no place for needless politics and woke debates or any other idiotic liberal argument against funding the police or allowing them to do the job they are paid to do. The job at hand requires being laser-focused on the violent few who are making streets of New York unsafe for every New Yorker and not on the stale politics of Defund The Police. 

Any illegal gun on the streets of New York is a threat to the safety of every New Yorker and such guns need to be taken away because they don't belong in the streets of New York. It is a war which New Yorkers must uncompromisingly win and New Yorkers must not abandon their streets to these depraved heart thugs. Frontline defenders in blue must be encouraged not to give up on the city, regardless of how they might be currently demoralized and disheartened by the vicious attacks on them and the growing number of their colleagues being murdered. They must be encouraged and incentivized not to give up because doing so will be throwing a victory party for the criminals. 

Majority of New Yorkers appreciate the awesome job which the courageous men and women in blue are doing in keeping them safe and are grateful and thankful to them for their selfless sacrifice. It is not an easy job to daily put one's life on the line for others, including the criminals who frequently expose them to grave risks. Our men and women in blue must therefore appreciate this majority and not allow anger and despondency of the current situation impact their work of protecting the supermajority who are forced to live with the daily violence. Protecting the people is a promise and a commitment they made, and as New York's finest and bravest, they shall overcome. #BlueIsGood.