Posted on 06/30/2025 6:08:03 AM PDT by 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
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That always works out well.
I have a sneaking suspicion this guy will not be on the ticket come election day. I am sure wheels are in motion...he can do this the easy way and drop out or the hard way, which he wished he chose option #1. Monied Jewish interest in NYC are having their TDS fit right now...but I think even how stupid they are will see this guy for who he is.
Amazing how “art” imitates life.
“...root causes of violent crime in poverty...”
Never accept your opponent’s premise.............
These people seem to think that THIS TIME socialism will work, and finally there will be Utopia!
As I always say: The Left dreams of a world without police to oppress The Bad Guys. What they may end up with is a world in which the police are no longer there to restrain The Good Guys. We can take out the trash just fine if the police just get out of the way.
No worries, New Yorkers. When your police resign/retire en masse your charismatic communist Muslim mayor will replace them with Muslims who will carry out his Islamic desires.
I was thinking the same thing. How eerily appropriate and right on the money. I was thinking “time to put up a wall around it”.
The Jackass will redistribute the wealth and anyone that can right out of New York, it’ll be a whole new version of escape from New York.
Ah, the old “root causes of crime” nonsense.
The root causes of crime boils down to FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN EVIL.
In reality, I believe it’s just a clever way to lay foundations for a Sharia Law enforcement organization.
bingo!
My Southeastern city is desperate for more police officers. The city is growing quickly, and the police department isn’t keeping pace.
I'd get out now - for my own safety and the safety of my family.
I remember Colin Flaherty saying that police departments in rural parts of California, Oregon and Washington were filled with former police officers from anti-police cities such as Chicago, Newark, New York City, Los Angeles
If Mamdani wins he’ll crown himself Supreme Leader of NYC and claim the city for himself
sharia law will come to New York City...
this will not end well.
calling the Warriors. Please pick up the yellow courtesy phone.
Mamdami’s father was brought to the US by USAID, from Uganda, back in the 1960s. After drifting around UK Commonwealth universities and think-tanks, he suddenly wound up at Columbia university.
Now his no-name, Uganda-born marxist son may become Mayor of America’s largest city.
Happens all the time, right?
These people are some kind of CIA/MI6/Davos cut-out.
Yeah sure.
Who are they think they are kidding
The police will eagerly follow whatever directive he says, including arresting dissidents.
I bet few if any will retire
New York deserves what it chooses. Hopefully, the Feds will stop funding their path to lefty insanity.
However, it does make for good comedy theater.
New Yorkers are stereotypically arrogant clowns anyway. Who cares???
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