Judge Judy's son Adam Levy says he could fix Los Angeles ‘in a month’

The recent mayoral election in Los Angeles was "obviously not" a reckoning, according to Judge Adam Levy, because the city needed a serious overhaul.

Los Angeles endured a series of wildfires last year that destroyed thousands of homes and put a spotlight on some of the decision-making by local leaders. Former reality show star Spencer Pratt, who lost his own home in the Palisades fires, challenged Mayor Karen Bass in the mayoral primary, largely focusing his campaign on her response to the infernos. His message helped him surge in the polls before ultimately failing to advance in the June primary.

Pratt also centered his campaign on fighting the city’s crime and homelessness, particularly rampant open-air drug use.

Levy, the son of "Judge Judy" star Judy Sheindlin, who has starred in a few courtroom shows himself, said he had a checklist of what he'd do as mayor of Los Angeles to address some of the same issues.

SPENCER PRATT'S UNEXPECTED POLITICAL RISE FROM MTV VILLAIN TO KAREN BASS CHALLENGER

Judge Adam Levy on "Adam's Law." (Paramount)

"I would have to get rid of a lot of people, but I could fix it in a month," Levy told Fox News Digital.

"As mayor, you got to sit down with your DA and with your police chief," he began. "And he needs to say that we got to turn this ship around. You will have 100% support from the mayor's office in focusing your attention on repeat offenders, violent offenders. And those first-time offenders, they need to be moved out of the criminal justice system into an alternative program, community service-based program. Where you commit a crime, you do community service. You complete community service successfully. Whatever crime you committed gets wiped off your record. Easy-peasy."

If first-time offenders fail to complete their community service, then they would be prosecuted, he explained. It would be on their record, affecting their ability to get housing and benefits and jobs.

He blasted judges who he said are trying to be criminals' friends rather than doing their jobs.

"And as DA, I absolutely would focus my prosecutor's attention on the repeat offenders, on the violent offenders," he said. "And as the mayor, you've got to appoint judges that have that same mindset. You've got to stop appointing judges that really want to be social workers."

SPENCER PRATT STOPS AT ICONIC LA RESTAURANT ON ELECTION DAY, VOWS TO MAKE CITY 'STREETS SAFE AGAIN'

A homeless man stands next to his tent in Los Angeles, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

When he was a Republican DA in a county in upstate New York, Levy said he got along with both Republicans and Democrats because they agreed the top priority was to keep families safe. He said some of the major cities have lost the plot.

"When I ran for DA, I made it very clear: ‘You vote for me, and I promise to protect your family the same way I would protect my own,'" he said. "They don't do that in LA. They don't do that in New York. They don't do that in certain cities that have lost their way. And it's the politicians, unfortunately, that get to go back to their homes and good neighborhoods behind gates, where these repeat criminal offenders are not being released back into. That's the problem, and it really is infuriating."

Mayor Bass pushed back on the notion that LA is a danger zone after President Donald Trump pledged that "Los Angeles is going to be safe" under his lead.

"L.A. is safer than it’s been in decades, including declines in violent crime for the last two years and homicides at a 60-year low," Bass said in a statement to LAist in February. "We will be even safer when ICE is out of Los Angeles."

LA has fewer homicides than Washington, D.C., when population differences are calculated. In 2025, the homicide rate was 5.9 per 100,000 residents, according to data from the Los Angeles Police Department, the lowest homicide rate since 1959.

Fox News Digital has reached out to Mayor Bass's office for comment.

Levy pivoted his attention to New York City. Even though Rudy Giuliani has become a controversial figure in recent years, Levy said he was exactly who New York City needed as mayor in the 1990s. The city had devolved to the point that even the deep blue Big Apple had had enough and was willing to hire a Republican for the job, the judge said.

CLICK HERE FOR MORE MEDIA AND CULTURE STORIES

NYPD officers detain a demonstrator during a protest, amid a two-week ceasefire in the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, along Third Avenue in the Midtown area of New York City, U.S., April 13, 2026. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)

"Because New York City became so terrible, so dangerous, so dirty, so stinky, no one wanted to be here anymore," Levy said. "And people finally got fed up – Democrats finally got fed up. It’ll happen too in LA — it’s just a matter of how bad is it going to get before the people wake up and start electing adults in the room."

During Giuliani's term, violent crime declined by more than 56 percent in New York City, compared to about 28 percent in the nation as a whole. Property crimes decreased by about 65 percent, compared to 26 percent nationally, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Levy credited the statistic in part to Giuliani leaning on the "broken windows" policy, a practice in which law enforcement focused on strictly policing minor offenses, in hopes it would lead to a drop in overall crime.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP

Violent crime declined by more than 56 percent in New York City under Rudy Giuliani's term. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

"I remember what New York City was like in the ‘70s and in the ’80s. It was a s--hole," he added. "And he came in, and he cleaned it up. He cleaned it up for [Michael] Bloomberg, who then brought the businesses in. You couldn't have Bloomberg without Giuliani. He got rid of the panhandlers, the aggressive panhandlers, the homelessness, people taking craps on the street, the garbage. It was the broken windows' theory. He and his police chiefs were on the same page. And then people felt safe, because they were safer."

Levy's new show "Adam’s Law," from CBS Media Ventures, is premiering in national syndication on Sept. 14. The show is produced by Judy Sheindlin’s Queen Bee Productions.