Curtis Sliwa advocates for restoring qualified immunity for police officers and believes the city's crime crisis stems from political failures like bail reform.

“I will return their qualified immunity because they need to be protected like other civil servants.”

Miami achieved historically low homicide rates by rejecting policies like defunding the police and no cash bail.

“We never got into the defund police nonsense. We never got into the no cash bail nonsense. Uh we're a city of laws. We're a city, a community that respects law and order. And because of that, uh we have probably one of the lowest homicide rates in history.”

The mayor claims that the visible presence of uniformed officers makes New Yorkers feel safer and that he is responding to requests from community residents for improved police performance.

“when we see this is what the public is saying when we see the visible presence of a uniform officer we feel safer now you may say Eric I don't want to see a visible president of uniform officer and that's cool but that's not what the overwhelming number of New Yorkers are saying”

Voters moved toward right-wing candidates in order to support policies that restore public order, such as harsher penalties for crime.

“the people of Oakland the conservative people of Oakland decided that they wanted to have a functioning Society that's what happened in the election by the way whether you like it or not people decided they wanted a functioning Society”

The government should enforce laws, such as those related to public disturbances, to make cities safe and inhabitable again.

“If we succeed in making cities safe again, we free up more urban housing.”

She contends that current crime and safety issues require a comprehensive approach beyond law enforcement, including building up mental health capacity.

“we need to have mental health professionals who intervene first and that's one of the commitments that I made to the chief that I'm going to focus on really building up our mental health capacity so that people don't deteriorate to the point where they hurt others or hurt themselves”

Los Angeles should implement a more balanced public safety system that incorporates armed police, improved 911 services, and unarmed response teams for non-violent calls.

“A system where you have armed officers you who are able to respond to calls for service that require them, investments in 911 call takers who can pick up phone calls quickly, and investments in a citywide unarmed response system that could go out for calls that don't require armed officers”

He advocates for creating a department of community safety to address mental health and homelessness crises instead of relying solely on the police.

“what we are going to do is put out a plan and a proposal that we have shared with New Yorkers to create the department of community safety that would bring together all of these pre-existing silos that address mental health crisis that address homelessness into one department provide it with the fun”