Mamdani still plans to unravel the NYPD — and with – Latest News
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s marketing campaign promise to destroy the NYPD by eliminating the Strategic Response Group and scrubbing the gang database was back-burnered as he obtained his sea legs, however current statements signal that he’s still on observe to neuter our Finest.
As half of his effort to flip the NYPD into a passive “community safety” company, Mamdani dispatched a fact-finding crew to Columbus, Ohio, (of all locations) to study how the police there handle crowds at protests.
You would possibly suppose that New York, which has 1000’s of protests — each deliberate and spontaneous — yearly, involving typically a whole lot of 1000’s of people, would have sufficient expertise with crowd control.
Certainly more than Columbus, a metropolis a tenth our measurement.
But Columbus has a supposedly progressive coverage of “deploying officers skilled in dialogue and problem-solving” at protests so as to “foster legitimacy, trust, and mutual understanding.”
These “Dialogue Officers” are backed up by riot control police stored at a distance.
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But that is already what the NYPD does at protests. Per Commissioner Jessica Tisch, the SRG was deployed — distantly — at solely 6% of 2025’s 4,255 protests and made arrests at solely a few dozen demonstrations.
It was solely in 2023 that the metropolis legally adopted a hands-off “tiered” method to policing road protests, and agreed not to encircle protesters or in any other case disturb their “First Amendment Activity,” which is how the left describes all protesting, even such blatantly unlawful habits as blocking visitors.
Gotham is already doing what Columbus does, however leftists are addicted to figuring out “best practices” elsewhere to justify their own method right here.
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We noticed this when Mamdani’s mayoral marketing campaign cited the CAHOOTS program in Eugene, Ore., as a model for his plan to ship social staff as an alternative of cops to reply to emergencies when mentally sick people have been committing violence
This ignored the truth CAHOOTS had proved a failure, misplaced its funding and ceased.
No matter: Mamdani has moved forward with his ballyhooed “Office of Community Safety,” for now a shell workplace that may be crammed with diverted NYPD funding as quickly as the mayor has the political capital to begin dismantling the power.
The current machete assault on a Grand Central subway platform, the place a madman calling himself Lucifer slashed three aged straphangers earlier than police took him down, ought to slam shut the door on the beloved fable that violent maniacs are simply in need of a sympathetic ear.
The cops implored Anthony Griffin to drop his weapon, and solely shot him when he moved to assault them.
But don’t trouble asking Mamdani or his public-safety coverage knowledgeable Abdul Rad how social staff may’ve defused the scenario; they’ll simply say that actual public security means intervention earlier than the machete is picked up.
So far, the SRG is still operational, however Mamdani says he “remains steadfast” in his “commitment to disband” the unit, which on high of crowd control is the NYPD’s frontline counter-terrorism contingent.
The mayor has been busy with his cheerful plans for building free day-care facilities and sponsored grocery shops and his smirking about tax hikes.
But he stays the identical radical police abolitionist who preposterously insists that the Israeli military laces the boots that the NYPD supposedly presses in your neck.
Watch out, New York — Mamdani is getting ready the ground for the demolition of our public security structure.
