A overview of his fund-raising practices by The New York Occasions earlier this 12 months confirmed that he has pushed the boundaries of campaign-finance and ethics legal guidelines, although he has not been formally accused of wrongdoing. And the final month of the marketing campaign noticed controversies over transparency points play out regarding his tax and actual property disclosures and even questions of residency, culminating in a rare second by which Mr. Adams supplied journalists a tour of the condominium the place he stated he lived.
Mr. Adams’s adolescence within the public eye had been spent within the Police Division, the place he helped discovered a company known as 100 Blacks in Legislation Enforcement Who Care. His efforts impressed some and rankled different colleagues on the drive who describe a profession trajectory that was extra advanced than Mr. Adams typically suggests.
However to at the present time, some voters bear in mind Mr. Adams from these efforts, which helped him dispatch arguments from opponents that he was overly inclined to embrace policing as a solution to town’s challenges.
“My admiration for him actually began when he was a policeman speaking about police brutality, and a captain speaking about cops not fulfilling their oath,” stated Charles B. Rangel, the previous New York congressman, who endorsed Mr. Adams.
As an outspoken police officer, Mr. Adams had his share of controversies, too, aligning himself at varied instances with Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam chief who has repeatedly promoted anti-Semitism, and the ex-boxer Mike Tyson after his 1992 rape conviction. Mr. Adams misplaced a 1994 congressional run, and he was additionally a registered Republican for a time frame within the Nineties.
In 2006, he was elected to the State Senate as a Democrat, a part of a wave of Central Brooklyn politicians who got here up from exterior the occasion, and in 2013, gained an election to be Brooklyn borough president.
Mr. Adams, who turned an evangelist for veganism after he says he reversed his diabetes by reforming his weight-reduction plan and train routines, turned recognized for making ready vegan meals at Borough Corridor, and he developed a status as a splashy New York character inclined to creating surprising remarks and appearances. There was the ugly rat-related information convention, as an example, or Mr. Adams’s announcement that he, as a former legislation enforcement officer, would start bringing a gun to homes of worship after a bloodbath in a Pittsburgh synagogue.