New York Mayor Eric Adams’ new anti-crime unit, which will debut in a week or so, is tasked with going after gun-related crimes as murders and shootings climb in the city. Policing experts warn that because the unit will deal with armed suspects most of the time, its members have a higher chance of being involved in shootings. They say if that happens and political pressure builds to detract from or dismantle the unit, Adams must stand behind the unit’s crime-fighting mission and not fall back. “As violent crime skyrockets you have to unhandcuff the police, let the police do their job, and let them know that if something happens—inevitably, there is going to be something controversial that is going to happen—politicians have their back,” John Eterno, criminal justice professor at Molloy College, told The Epoch Times. Political Courage Needed Eterno said because anti-crime unit officers are supposed to aggressively …