If Mamdani wins, NYC’s police have no intention of dying in the name of social justice

American Thinker ^ | 29 Jun, 2025 | Andrea Widburg

[MtnClimber]

Zohran Mamdani, the Marxist-Muslim tapped as the leading candidate to become New York City’s next mayor, does not believe in the police. Instead, he believes in social workers. The police, in turn, do not believe in being handcuffed in their duties and exposed to a high risk of death in a city that no longer allows them to do their jobs. If Mamdani wins, they’re saying, they walk.

In the lead-up to the New York City Democrat mayoral primary, Mamdani was very clear about his desire to rid New York City of the troublesome plague of active policing. Instead, he plans to shift the focus to social workers (which was, as you may recall, one of the promises of the “Defund the Police” movement). Jacobin, the hard left outlet, describes his plan in the most glowing terms:

[His] approach, which emphasizes social services not as a replacement for but a complement to traditional policing, is a departure from the calls to defund or even abolish the police that became prominent on the Left starting in 2020. (Mamdani himself embraced the defund rhetoric at the height of the George Floyd protests but has since rejected it.)

Mamdani’s position is both politically savvy and substantively sensible. Proposals to defund or abolish the police are very unpopular, and understandably so — people reasonably worry that a reduction in police will leave them more vulnerable to violent crimes like theft or assault. Mamdani’s proposal to create a Department of Community Safety addresses the need to address deeper causes of crime like mental health disorders and homelessness without minimizing or dismissing people’s valid concerns about crime. At the same time, while rejecting the rhetorical frames of “defund” or “abolition,” Mamdani has spoken about reducing police overtime and trimming fat

[Hildy]

That was a good time municipalities and sheriff‘s offices to recruit for good officers out here in the southwest where we care about our law-enforcement officers.

[Bon of Babble]

Yes, if it wasn’t for elderly relatives, some of whom are disabled - and my kids and granddaughter, I’d be out of California.

They’re all I have.

[oldtech]

The more I hear about this guy Mamdani, the sooner I think he needs to disappear from politics, NYC, & America. He sounds almost exactly what we don’t need. But I do realize there are people who would vote for him. I don’t understand why, though. Maybe these types need to leave with him.

[from occupied ga]

However, if he’s elected MAYBE New Yorkers will come to their senses and stop electing Democrats/idiots/communists/etc. on second thought they won’t. New Yorkers are too stupid to realize elections have consequences. They have Democrat burned into their brains and the more preposterous and further left the better.

Sincerely to NYC voters you deserve everything that’s going to happen to you. You’ve been voting for this sh!t as long as I can remember, trying to force totalitarian government on the rest of the country via your dipshit representatives and you richly deserve what’s coming to you. In fact you deserve worse. I hope you enjoy being robbed, beaten, raped and murdered by alien criminals you don’t want to see deported. So from flyover country best wishes on enjoying what you voted for.

[dfwgator]

Anyone who votes for him should be forced to stay there, and not be able to leave and foul up other nests.