De Blasio defends decision to disband NYPD gun unit, but praises NYC Mayor-elect Eric Adams, who wants to bring it back

With less than two months left in his final term at City Hall, New York City’s current mayor said he stands by his police commissioner’s decision to disband the NYPD’s controversial anti-crime unit — even as his successor and political ally Mayor-elect Eric Adams has doubled down on plans to bring the unit back in a different form.

Business daily