New York Mayor Eric Adams took time Monday to celebrate their handling of the city’s Labor Day weekend events, especially the Caribbean Carnival celebrations in Brooklyn. He was joined by Police Commissioner Caban and his leadership team to talk about J’ouvert…Labor Day weekend.
Mayor Adams said, “No one does it better than the New York City Police Department. US Open, is happening, the parade is happening. People are barbecuing. People are in Times Square. This is just really something that the people of the city of New York should be proud of the men and women who are donning the blue uniform and carry out the practice of public safety.”
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“It was the combined effort of not only our precision policing of the NYPD, but also brings together all of our partners. It’s going to be a hallmark of this administration on how we dismantle walls and barriers to execute plans and ensure that we can just get stuff done. We teamed with our crisis management team, our [peer] violence team, community partners, community leaders, technology.”
“This was one of the safest J’ouvert celebrations and Labor Day weekends we have seen in recent memories and probably the safest J’ouvert celebration in history. Coming off of last year’s J’ouvert celebration, you’re seeing a continuation of how we are crafting and tuning our craft and introducing new principles and tools to make it even safer.”
“Major crime was down city wide nearly nine percent this weekend compared to the same four day period last year. For J’ouvert and West Indian Day Parade, we created a comprehensive deployment plan, and all of our agencies were involved: DEP, DOT, FDNY, NYPD, everyone came together to make sure we utilized every asset we had to implement a well thought out, comprehensive, executed plan.”
“So, I want to make it clear that when it comes to handling these large scale events and weekends, we are the best. We’re the best not only because of the Police Department, but we’re the best because of the other agencies and we’re the best because of New York City residents. They play such a vital role in how we implement and execute these procedures.”
Police Commissioner Edward Caban said, “Everyone knows New York City is unlike any other city in the world. There’s always so much going, from major sporting events to concerts, parades and more. And where there are large crowds, you can always be sure the NYPD is always there. We saw this on full display over the Labor Day weekend; and like the mayor said, we had the U.S. Open in Flushing, the Electric Zoo on Randall’s Island, multiple parades and cultural events, Orchard Beach and Coney Island open to the public, and the many local neighborhood parties happening each of our five boroughs.”
