Clarence Page: Hey, Chicago, New York Democrats sent you a message: Fund the police, but wisely
Civic pride prevents me from looking too often to New York for political guidance. Chicago’s and New York’s styles of politics are about as far apart as their preferences for pizza.
But political junkies everywhere can marvel at the Big Apple’s latest challenge to the conventional political wisdom: the nomination of Democrat Eric Adams, a tough-on-crime, retired Black police captain, to be the city’s next mayor.
In the largest American city to try cumulative voting, Brooklyn Borough President Adams was
