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Eye on NYC: Zohran’s Police Exodus
Many “NYPD cops are considering retiring if Mamdani” turns into mayor, experiences The Free Press’ Olivia Reingold.
Yet the pressure is already “facing a manpower crisis that has grown even worse in recent months.”
This 12 months is set to “have one of the highest attrition rates of the past decade,” and ex-Commissioner Bill Bratton predicts “a very significant exodus from the NYPD” if Mamdani turns into mayor.
Mamdani’s plan “to embolden” the Civilian Complaint Review Board by giving it disciplinary powers, plus his different social-justice priorities, equivalent to a “proposed Department of Community Safety” and elevated reliance on “gun violence interrupters,” promise an atmosphere through which the “life of a cop” is no longer definitely worth the prices.
From the left: Prog ‘Groups’ Distort Dem Politics
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Endorsements from progressive teams just like the League of Conservation Voters “can meaningfully impact” a politician’s “odds of being considered for upward mobility” within the Democratic Party, observes Slow Boring’s Matt Yglesias.
“This creates an incentive to say ‘yes’ to whatever they happen to ask for,” even when this alignment “can throw the race to Republicans.”
E.g., LCV’s questionnaire for pols has a “fundamental focus” on “shutting down the fossil fuel industry,” with “no real concern for cost of living.”
The teams should “behave in a less dysfunctional manner,” however in the end get together leaders should “outline a national agenda for the party that blows off these questionnaires and can plausibly compete across a large map of states.”
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Libertarian: Brits’ Increasingly Unfree Speech
“The British government has a very peculiar definition of freedom,” snarks Reason’s Matthew Petti.
While “explaining new restrictions on protest,” on Sunday, “Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood implied that freedom is something the public shouldn’t exercise freely if it bothers others,” saying: “Just because you have a freedom doesn’t mean you have to use it at every moment of every day.”
Petti fumes: “Under Mahmood’s new protest regulations, police will be able to move, reschedule, or limit the size of protests based on the ‘cumulative disruption’ caused by similar protests,” so, successfully, “if a movement is annoying enough to the powers that be, they can push it off the streets.”
“The immediate context of the restrictions is an attempt to crack down on pro-Palestinian unrest,” however “the authorities have gone after causes across the political spectrum.”
From the correct: Dems’ ICE Delusions
Americans have seen an “explosive collision between the president’s determination to enforce federal immigration law and many Democratic leaders’ determination not to enforce federal immigration law,” notes the Washington Examiner’s Byron York, with raging conflicts throughout the nation, “from peaceful protests to violent protests to obstruction of immigration authorities’ work to attempted murder of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.”
In a Harvard CAPS/Harris ballot, 78% favor “deporting immigrants who are here illegally and have committed crimes.”
Yet Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Johnson are combating Trump’s “deployment of National Guard troops to enforce federal immigration law.”
Whatever Democrats care to faux, when the president “enforces federal immigration law, Trump is doing what most people want.”
Antisemitism: A ‘Menace to Civilization Itself’
“Last week’s murder of a man at a synagogue in Manchester, England,” on Yom Kippur absolutely will need to have additional diminished the already “thinning ranks” of Europe’s Jews, sighs The Wall Street Journal’s Gerard Baker.
“Creating a shtetl in the Antarctic” now appears “more appealing than the alternative.”
Blame the British institution’s leaders for the “circumstances” that allowed that assault.
In the title of selling “multiculturalism” and avoiding “Islamophobia,” they closed their eyes, at the same time as “thousands of girls, mostly white,” have been “raped and abused” by males of “mostly south Asian heritage starting in the 1990s.”
After Oct. 7, 2023, information retailers engaged in “unrelenting anti-Israel propaganda.” Jews are “the immediate casualties of this extremist ideological tide.”
But “their peril is a signal of the menace to civilization itself.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
