Eric Adams says he’d get rid of bad cops within 90 days of incident

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Top mayoral candidate Eric Adams would get rid of “abusive” cops within three months of an incident if he’s elected to lead City Hall, the ex-police captain promised Wednesday.

“What I’m going to promise my officers is I’m going to allow you to do your job, and I will protect you when you do your job, but if you are abusive in my city, you are going to be out of the department within 90 days,” Adams, the Brooklyn Borough president, said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”

“We are going to lift up the standard and expectation of our officers, and we are going to make sure they have the tools to keep our city safe.”

Adams, a former state senator, contrasted his proposed short department trial approach with the yearlong period between when officer Daniel Pantaleo killed Eric Garner with a chokehold and his firing from the force under Mayor Bill de Blasio.

He spoke on Wednesday about his experience both being assaulted and spat on as a transit cop, and as a victim of police brutality when he was a teenager — claiming the city has “betrayed” New Yorkers by allowing a “minority” of bad cops to keep their jobs.

“Where our failure lies is we did not rid our departments from those who were not suitable to wear that uniform,” he said on MSNBC.

Adams has said he was kicked in the groin in the 103rd Precinct when he was 15 years old, which left him with blood in his urine in the ensuing days.

Still, the tough-on-crime candidate promised to visit every NYPD precinct immediately after taking office to “rebuild that trust” from the city’s cops, and boasted about his refusal to “jump on the number sticker” of the unpopular proposal to defund and disband police departments.

“I know that 3-year-old children should not be shot in Times Square,” he said. “I know that we should not have individuals shoved on the subway system.”

“Everyone wants to be safe, and that is what I’m going to ensure.”

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