On the other hand, Adams’ narrow, 8,400-vote margin over Garcia was built on support from neighborhoods where chronic bloodshed is a way of life. Their residents want more, not less, police protection notwithstanding Wiley’s assertion that defunding cops was what people of color really craved. In the 75th Precinct of Brooklyn’s East New York, which has seen nine murders and 34 shootings in 2021, Adams clobbered all others with up to 77.9 percent of the vote. He also took up to 60 percent in the Southwest Bronx’s 44th Precinct where there were eight murders and 44 shootings so far this year. My childhood neighborhood of Ocean Hill-Brownsville, in the 73d Precinct, saw eight murders and 35 shootings since Jan. 1, most of them in Brownsville’s gang-infested housing projects. The gigantic Broadway Junction subway station, both elevated and underground, is one of the scariest of the system’s 472 stations and a source of dread for all who use it. Adams pulled nearly 75 percent in some of this precinct’s voting districts.