NY1 is THE main local tv news weather & traffic channel on all the cable TV systems for all 5 boroughs (comes with all basic packages; actual broadcast TV never worked much for most of NYC) He was definitely talking to his constituents there, not a national audience, the news anchors are all long well-known celebrities

Interview was 9 mins live at noon, video is here

Adams defends policing policies in wake of subway mass shooting arrest

By Joseph Konig New York City

PUBLISHED 6:15 PM ET Apr. 13

TOUGH TALK, Mayor & anchors both! I'd recommend watching at least part to hear the tone, it's angry. Not just about terrorism, but gets into it a little and absolutely touting that they've got to beef up the ATF-Feds to get guns out of the city.

 But it was more about the 12 shootings last night stressing the VICTIMS being black, that's the "black lives matter" part, why don't all those people upset about Geo. Floyd care about these black lives, where are they? About a lot of the victims not just being black but being babies. And many of the perps are  black babies, too.  He wants to know where the protesters are, how come they're busy tweeting against cops and not instead tweeting criminal acts (as in: if you see something, say something) and making sure their kids are at home doing their homework, not on the street with a gun. The "social work" part comes in with stuff like when he was a kid, they'd say on tv: "it's 10 pm, do you know where your children are?" He does mention foster kids are a particular problem with crime and it needs work...was all in his plan...

(me, I suspect foster "parenting" minority teens is a big income producer in poor urban areas, too often by people who like the money but either don't care that much or don't know that much about raising responsible young men. I.E. a lot of kids about to go bad are being placed with people who didn't have good parents either. They turn to gangs or similar to get a sense of family. I don't know what you do about that. I have a cousin who did basic social work with juvies, she is a great gal, hip, very open to all with a great laugh and grew up an only child with adoring gentle parents, father a truck driver, mom a stay-at-home (my aunt & uncle). She didn't get very far with most of them, they roll their eyes at her, think they can pull one over, she knew what they were doing but how to do anything about it? You have to be tough and mean with them, alpha, seems the only way? In any case, letting them roam the streets at night and shrugging as long as the welfare money for them keeps rolling in, that's not the way. "Scared Straight" type programs seem to work best, but now we don't have a lot of ex-cons who rue their experience, instead we got a lot of them being let out early to be criminals again. A short stint in prison is like a badge of honor and manhood, rap lyrics say so...)