New York City Mayor Eric Adams has announced a significant expansion of the Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) training program for justice-involved individuals, set to grow 15-fold in 2026, training 300 New Yorkers. Partnering with Emerge Career, the program has already proven successful, with every 2025 graduate securing high-paying CDL jobs with salaries between $78,000 and…
On August 17, 2025, Mayor Eric Adams addressed a mass shooting at a Crown Heights nightclub in Brooklyn, where 12 people were shot, three fatally, in a suspected gang-related incident. Speaking alongside Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, Pastor Gilford Monrose, and AT Mitchell from Man Up! Inc., Adams emphasized the city’s ongoing efforts to combat gun…
NEW YORK—Mayor Eric Adams, in a July 29, 2025, Instagram Live interview with Rocanews, detailed the city’s response to a deadly Midtown Manhattan shooting that claimed four lives, including the gunman, and left one person critically injured. The suspect, identified as a Las Vegas resident, used two firearms—one legally purchased, the other linked to an…
On July 3, 2025, New York City Mayor Eric Adams, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez, and NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch announced a major gang takedown targeting the violent crew known as R2R (Road 2 Riches), responsible for at least 10 shootings, including one homicide, in East New York and Brownsville. The long-term investigation led to…
A suspected arson attack targeted an NYPD parking lot in Bushwick, Brooklyn, early Thursday morning, resulting in at least 11 police vehicles being set ablaze and several others vandalized. The incident occurred around 1:30 a.m. near Central and DeKalb avenues, just a block from the 83rd Precinct. Surveillance footage captured a masked individual dressed in…
Federal Authority and State/Local Discretion Federal law establishes that immigration enforcement is primarily a federal responsibility. The Supreme Court and lower courts have repeatedly affirmed that the federal government cannot compel state or local officials to enforce federal immigration laws, a principle rooted in the Tenth Amendment’s “anti-commandeering” doctrine125. This means that while states and…