The plan of the mayor of New York, Eric Adams, to deal with the proliferation of firearms received this Monday the support of a coalition of more than 200 companies, including Pfizer and JP Morgan Chase, civic, religious, world leaders education, art and unions.
“Public security is the basis of a prosperous city”, they indicate in the letter in which they point out that the recent death in a shooting of policemen Jason Rivera and Wilbert Mora and the increase in “senseless” aggressions has increased the need to remove illegal weapons and increase the presence of agents on the streets “to function in a fair and effective manner.”
The policemen Rivera, cremated last Friday, and Mora, whose remains will be buried on Wednesday, died after being shot, when they were investigating a domestic dispute, with a weapon that is illegal in New York and whoever shot it had a long criminal record.
The incident with the policemen, in the neighborhood of Harlem, in a city where New Yorkers had expressed their fear of going out into the streets, increased calls for a solution to the problem, caused according to the authorities by the flow of illegal weapons.
The letter follows the response to the crisis by Mayor Adams, a former police captain, who last week presented a comprehensive plan for security that includes checkpoints in the bus and train stations that arrive in the city and resume the controversial unit of agents in civilian clothes, abolished in the 1536, as well as mental health experts, among other actions.
“New York cannot recover from the devastating impacts of the pandemic without first restoring a sense of personal security that every resident, worker, visitor, and community of our city has the right to expect,” the letter also indicates in support of the Adams plan, who was sworn into office on January 1. nero.
“The mayor has taken a brave stand and we all share the responsibility of helping him carry out his agenda,” say the members of the coalition, which includes Richard Aborn, president of the Citizens Crime Commission, Albert Bourla and Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO of Pfizer and JPMorgan Chase, respectively.
Also to Laurence D. Fink, Chairman and CEO of the investment firm BlackRock , Peter Gelb, CEO of the Metropolitan Opera, Robin Hayes, CEO of JetBlue airlines, former Judge Jonathan Lippman or Jeff Shell, CEO of NBC Universal and David Solomon, Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs, among others.
“Making New York a safer city is a prerequisite for prosperity and social justice and will help us overcome the multiple crises we face,” Adams said in the statement in that released the letter.
“It will take all New Yorkers to help us move forward, and the support of this extraordinary coalition is an indication that we are on the right path,” he said.
The rise in firearms crime led the governor, Kathy Hochul, to create a committee made up of nine states, led by New York, to seek a response and solutions to the growing problem and that last week held their first meeting.
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