Mayor de Blasio, who polls indicate is an overwhelming favorite to win a second term on Nov. 7, has some concrete achievements he can point to in asking his workforce, as well as the general public, to give him another four years in office.
Two of the obvious ones are his ambitious expansion of pre-kindergarten as a vital step in giving young children a leg up in gaining quality educations, and the continuing drop in crime during his mayoralty that has been accompanied by a concerted effort to improve relations between police officers and the communities they patrol, particularly in minority neighborhoods where tension has existed between the parties.
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