On Wednesday I wrote about how a shocking 87% to a Siena College poll responded that crime is a very or somewhat serious problem in New York State and New York City.

Later in the day Mayor Eric Adams called the messenger the problem with the public’s sense of the current crime wave.

“They start their day picking up the news, the morning papers… and they see some of the most horrific events that may happen throughout the previous day,” a defensive Adams said during an interview with the press Wednesday morning. 

“Plays on your psyche!” he added.

“We know it’s going to take time,” Adams acknowledges. “But if you lead off every day with some of the horrific incidents that take place in the city with 8.5 million people, there’s a feeling that you have.”

“[M]y mission is to move people from what they felt to what they’re feeling. And no one can take away the fact this city is humming,” added Adams.

In another ironic twist, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg admitted his alarm when asked about the perception of many New Yorkers that the Big Apple is under siege and becoming increasingly unsafe.

“I know the statistics that transit crime is down, but when one of my family members gets on the train, I, too, get a knot in my stomach,” Bragg confessed in an interview.