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New York (AFP) – Gun violence has rocked the first three weeks of Eric Adams’ tenure as New York mayor, piling pressure on the former cop to deliver on his promise to improve public safety in America’s largest city. A shooting in the neighborhood of Harlem Friday left one police officer dead and another in critical condition. It was the latest flashpoint of the Democratic mayor’s nascent rule, in which he has yet to present a comprehensive plan to rein in the crime he has decried. “It is our city against the killers,” said Adams, a retired police captain, on Friday night at Harlem Hospital, wh…