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Many tough-on-crime candidates win in local elections across U.S.
Former New York Police Department Capt. Eric Adams won city’s mayoral race
By Natalia Mittelstadt
Updated: November 3, 2021
On a night when tough-on-crime questions were on ballots, two of the biggest decisions for more policing came in the New York City mayoral race and in a Minneapolis referendum, with most other, similarly pro-police candidates in other cities also doing well.
The Minneapolis referendum to replace the city's police department and its required minimum of officers with a new Department of Public Safety failed on Tuesday. The ballot question required 51% of the vote to pass but failed 44% to 57% with 133 out of 136 precincts reporting, according to Fox News.
In Cleveland, however, a ballot question on creating a civilian commission to hire and fire police officers is at 58.5% for and 41.5% against, with 83% of precincts reporting, Spectrum News reported.
The city's Democratic mayoral candidate, Justin Bibb, who supports the initiative, is also in the lead at 61.8%, over his opponent, GOP candidate Kevin Kelley, at 38.2%. Bibb declared victory Tuesday evening, with Kelley conceding at about 10:30 p.m., according to WKYC.
Increasing violent crime over the past two years and who among those up for election this year was on the minds of voters, including those who argued efforts to “defund” police departments in the aftermath of the 2020 social justice protests had made their communities too unsafe.
Much more here:
https://justthenews.com/politics-po...rime-candidates-win-local-elections-across-us
Former New York Police Department Capt. Eric Adams won city’s mayoral race
By Natalia Mittelstadt
Updated: November 3, 2021
On a night when tough-on-crime questions were on ballots, two of the biggest decisions for more policing came in the New York City mayoral race and in a Minneapolis referendum, with most other, similarly pro-police candidates in other cities also doing well.
The Minneapolis referendum to replace the city's police department and its required minimum of officers with a new Department of Public Safety failed on Tuesday. The ballot question required 51% of the vote to pass but failed 44% to 57% with 133 out of 136 precincts reporting, according to Fox News.
In Cleveland, however, a ballot question on creating a civilian commission to hire and fire police officers is at 58.5% for and 41.5% against, with 83% of precincts reporting, Spectrum News reported.
The city's Democratic mayoral candidate, Justin Bibb, who supports the initiative, is also in the lead at 61.8%, over his opponent, GOP candidate Kevin Kelley, at 38.2%. Bibb declared victory Tuesday evening, with Kelley conceding at about 10:30 p.m., according to WKYC.
Increasing violent crime over the past two years and who among those up for election this year was on the minds of voters, including those who argued efforts to “defund” police departments in the aftermath of the 2020 social justice protests had made their communities too unsafe.
Much more here:
https://justthenews.com/politics-po...rime-candidates-win-local-elections-across-us
