Mayor Adams needs to back the police in his battle with the City Council.

0:00 Speaker 1 What is today’s Governor David Patterson and one smart guy, one good friend, and Governor Patterson tell us what’s on your mind this week?

0:11 Speaker 2 Well, you know, John, I’ve been coming on your Sunday show my best count is for about nine years off and on, and during that time, I think you would agree that I don’t take any every opportunity as some do to criticize former President Donald Trump. I actually thought when he was in office that his foreign policy was

0:36 rather superb. And I thought also that his economic policies were, you know, really helped the country. And at the point that he left office, oil was at about forty dollars a gallon, not a gallon, but a.

0:57 Speaker 1 Baron, fifty fifty five dollars a barrel. It was around that.

1:03 Speaker 2 Yeah, and so but I just felt that, you know, he he eviscerated the field in the Iowa Caucuses. He handily won his bid to be the nominee in New Hampshire. And after all that success, what does he do. He gets up and trashes Nikki Haley because she said she wasn’t going to get out of the race. Now, let’s

1:31 just be fair here. He never conceded that he lost the twenty twenty election, not that night or not for three and a half years. So I think that she has the right. But listen, the projected pulls right now for South Carolina, her home state where she was governor, is sixty one percent for President Trump and twenty seven

1:58 for Haley. So she is not kind of a factor. It’ll come to her and at a certain point she will get out of the race and she will support him. But I just don’t see any reason for that kind of acromarmony, and some of the criticisms and making names about her I thought was actually vulgar. So with that

2:18 in mind, I just wanted to put that on the record. And now let’s get to the fact that there is an override attempt by the New York City Council on the piece of legislation that requires that police document almost every activity that they engage in, including saying good afternoon to a public. Yeah, Taurus, and Mayor Adams is looking

2:51 for two city Council members to who voted for the bill to come back and vote with him to prevent the override of his veto. And I think that that’s going to be very difficult because the speaker of the City Council Adrian Adams has offered that in the survey that was taken that ninety seven or ninety five percent

3:19 of the level one stops were people of color, African Americans and Hispanics. Now that is an alarming percentage. The crime statistics have shown that African Americans men and women were the you know, the numbers for crime committing crime are higher in those areas, but they never hit the numbers of the percentage of the stops at that level.

3:52 So what I’m thinking is that if the city Council could be persuaded at this point that people who would be stopped, since it does appear that very few of them are finding up getting arrested, but they are being stopped, that perhaps there’s a communication that could be handed to them right after the stop. What are you doing here?

4:15 You know, why are you doing what you’re doing? That kind of thing. And by the way, if you have any problem with the way I’ve conducted this stop, these are your options, like a card you could give them, because otherwise, I think we’re going to have a real problem if the police spend most of their time as

4:34 Mayor Adams is talking about just becoming administrators of paper rather than law enforcement officials protecting the public.

4:45 Speaker 1 I agree with you one hundred ten percent. If the police officers would be busy doing paperwork while the criminals get released and out committing new crimes, I mean, it’s just silly to think about what goes on in our country.

5:02 The other day, the mayor of Chicago got up and said, all your people living in mansions and wherever we you should take migrants in. And I was on one of the news programs on television and I said, well, I guess you better check Mayor Adams. The last time we did that in New York, the migrant killed the occupants.

5:28 Speaker 2 That has happened. And also, if you document the amount of time it’s going to take to write up these reports, its effectively reduces the number of police officers that are actually on the street because if a certain percentage of them are stopping people and then they have to write it up, what may happen is they may be more

5:56 careful who they stop and how often they do it, and that actually would be good. But to have a mandate to that effect is really micro managing the police department at the street level, which I think is done but it should be done by uniformed officers and people who have law enforcement experience and not statistics.

6:20 Speaker 1 A three one hundred and ten percent. And Mayor Adams says he’s he has given the budget back to the police officers and the fire department, and it’s holding back on the libraries, which is only like twenty million dollars.

6:37 I don’t understand, you know why he’s holding back in the libraries. Anything else on your mind.

6:45 Speaker 2 Well, that’s interesting because what happened really was it happened with the state budget and the city budget when the governor mayor came to the point of view of what they’d have to cut and what they could and Mayor Adams was talking about the cuts all the way back in October. The economy nationally and even in New York

7:09 has improved for the past couple of months. I see it as temporary, but if you’re trying to pass a budget, you could project that forward and get a lot of people to support the fact that you were able to restore the number of officers to the police force, and also money to libraries and after school programs and a

7:33 lot of the things that were scheduled to be cut. But I think what happens when people and I’ve negotiated budgets, is you negotiate with this positive feeling that you’ve underestimated the revenues. And as I had to tell colleagues and Albany, rarely do we ever underestimate the revenues. What happens is is that people overestimate the revenues and then wind up

7:59 with and that’s how we get into the financial problems that we will.

8:04 Speaker 1 The other problem coming, the other problem coming, and that not everybody might not have heard of, is the m c A has announced the last couple of days that they’re gonna because ridership is down by twenty percent, they’re going to raise the rates. They’re you know, the the amount of the ride.

8:21 Speaker 2 Yeah, and that’s gonna really hurt a lot of people. It’s gonna add to traffic.

8:27 Speaker 1 They want they want to stay, they want to stay even with the uh with the congestion pricing will be congestion subway rides.

8:36 Speaker 2 Uh yeah, I’m joking. I’m joking. No, I understand. Well, that’s it. That’s the state of affairs.

8:47 Speaker 1 Thank you this week, Thank you, Governor Patterson, and I enjoy talking to you every Sunday and God bless you, and we’ll catch up against them. Take care,