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United States
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New York's next mayor
紐約的下一任市長
Adams's Apple
亞當的蘋果
Eric Adams has a practical streak that ought to serve the city well
埃里克·亞當斯有一種務實的氣質，應該能很好地服務于這座城市
"Some people talk about police brutality. I want to tell you how it is to live through it." So begins the video that launched Eric Adams's mayoral campaign. In the clip he stands outside the police station in Queens where, when he was 15, police beat him and his brother. Despite this experience, or maybe because of it, he later joined the police force, eventually becoming both a police captain and a prominent internal critic of racism and brutality at the NYPD. In his campaign he blended a call to reform the police with respect for the badge and a pledge to crack down on crime, and on July 6th, two weeks after the Democratic primary, he was named the projected winner. That almost certainly makes him the next mayor, since Democrats outnumber Republicans in New York's electorate by seven to one.
“有些人在談論警察暴行，我想告訴你是怎么熬過來的。”這是發起埃里克·亞當斯市長競選活動的視頻的開頭。在視頻中，他站在皇后區警察局外，當時他15歲，警察毆打了他和他的兄弟。盡管有這樣的經歷，也可能正因為有這樣的經歷，他后來加入了警察隊伍，最終成為了一名警察隊長，同時也是紐約警察局內部對種族主義和暴行的著名批評者。在他的競選活動中，他呼吁改革警察制度，尊重警徽，并承諾打擊犯罪。7月6日，民主黨初選兩周后，他被提名為預計獲勝者。這幾乎肯定會讓他成為下一任市長，因為在紐約的選民中，民主黨人比共和黨人多七倍。
In the city's first election by ranked-choice voting, the two candidates that rose to the top of a crowded field were both relative centrists. Mr Adams, who also served as a state lawmaker and Brooklyn borough president, won by just 8,426 votes, or 1%, over Kathryn Garcia, a well-regarded bureaucrat. His emphasis on fighting crime clearly gave him an edge. While progressive candidates called for cutting police funding, Mr Adams argued that "the prerequisite for prosperity is public safety." That message resonated as shootings last year nearly doubled from 2019 and violent crime escalated even in well-policed areas like Times Square. According to one poll New Yorkers listed crime among their three top concerns, with covid-19 and housing. On the day Mr Adams learnt he had won, Andrew Cuomo, New York's governor, declared a "disaster emergency" statewide around gun violence.
在該市的第一次優先選擇投票中，在眾多候選人中脫穎而出的兩位候選人都是相對的中間派。亞當斯也曾擔任過州議員和布魯克林區長，他僅以8426票(1%)的優勢擊敗了備受尊敬的官僚凱瑟琳·加西亞。他對犯罪的強調顯然給了他優勢。當進步派候選人呼吁削減警察經費時，亞當斯認為“繁榮的先決條件是公共安全。”去年的槍擊事件比2019年增加了近一倍，即便是在時報廣場等治安良好的地區，暴力犯罪也在升級。根據一項民意調查，紐約市民將“犯罪”列為了他們最關心的三個問題之一，另外兩個是“新冠疫情”和“住房”。在亞當斯得知自己獲勝的那一天，紐約州州長安德魯·庫默就槍支暴力問題宣布全州進入“緊急狀態”。
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