NEW YORK — Despite the different crises the city is facing, Mayor Eric Adams keeps sending a message of confidence to New Yorkers.

“I’m the right person for this moment,” he said Saturday.

A day after two police officers were shot, one fatally, when responding to a domestic dispute call, Adams held a roundtable discussion with crisis management teams and violence interrupters in the Bronx.

“Don’t surrender to violence to violence," the mayor said. "Violence will surrender to us."

Adams is asking the federal government to do its part and stop the flow of illegal guns to the city.

He also pushed for the Build Back Better legislation that would bring resources to reduce gun violence.

Different violent events have dominated Adams’ first three weeks in office, a real test for a former police captain who campaigned on public safety.

The mayor said that in the coming days he’s going to roll out different initiatives to tackle gun violence. 

“We believe that when we roll out our initiative we are going to start to see a real impact in violence in creating a safe environment, and I cannot predict what’s going to happen," Adams said. "The only thing that I can predict is that I’m going to work harder than anyone that has ever sat in this seat to make my city safe and make our city safe.”

And for that, Adams knows he will need the police department by his side. 

On Friday night, at Harlem Hospital, he asked the men and women of the NYPD not to give up on New Yorkers, with police union president Pat Lynch standing by him in a show of unity.

“I think the mayor understands that you never want to have that 'turn your back on the mayor' moment," Christina Greer, professor at Fordham University, said. "I think so many New Yorkers remember what happened to Bill de Blasio during his tenure, and obviously Eric Adams is not gonna have that in week three.” 

On Saturday morning, the mayor also showed his support to police officers by walking to the 32nd precinct with a group of Eagle Academy students.