Maybe some hope for New York City

I am reminded of the great Frank Rizzo quote:

A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before.

From the New York Post:

Eric Adams aide mugged at gunpoint told crooks: ‘You don’t want to do this. I work for the mayor’
If this isn’t a sign of the times, nothing is.

Amid rising crime in the Big Apple, one of Mayor Eric Adams’ aides was mugged in broad daylight Tuesday while scouting a location in Brooklyn for a planned visit by Hizzoner, law-enforcement sources told The Post.

The brazen caper took place even though the victim, a civilian member of Adam’s advance team, cautioned that he was a well-connected City Hall employee, a high-ranking police source said.

“You don’t want to do this. I work for the mayor,” he told the two crooks.

But in a show of utter contempt, they ignored the warning, with one man lifting his shirt to display the butt of a pistol tucked into his pants, the source said.

I had hopes for Adams when he was elected but he turned out to be another soft-on-crime liberal. Maybe this might open his eyes to the reality of things...