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Posted on 12/27/2025 5:57:04 AM PST by MtnClimber
Zohran Mamdani is about to take office as New York City’s new mayor. One of his signature initiatives is the idea of ‘community policing’. This usually gets translated in the press as “he wants to send social workers out to answer 911 calls.” That alone is crazy enough, but as usual, the press does not begin to understand or communicate effectively what is really happening.
A bill has already been introduced before the New York City Council to create what will be called the “Department of Community Safety.” Brooklyn Lincoln Restler, a member of the Working Families Party, is the sponsor. Restler is a radical leftist who has been pushing to defund the police for years.
The bill before the City Council concerns a lot more than sending out social workers to respond to mental health calls. It creates a brand new agency with equal status to that of the New York Police Department and a broad, intentionally ambiguous charter to ensure “community safety” by means of “holistic efforts to prevent and respond to incidents of physical, emotional, and financial harm with specialized resources and responders, and the provision of social services aimed to improve safety, quality of life, and stability of neighborhoods.”
This new department will “maintain no fewer than one office in each borough” and assist in “the coordination of operations among agencies and offices under the jurisdiction of the mayor that are involved in law enforcement, emergency response, crime prevention, victim services, social services, homeless services, mental health, and public health.”
The Department of Community Safety will provide “alternatives to incarceration”, including “programs for diversion from incarceration; services related to re-entry to the community following incarceration; services related to pretrial supervised release; and violence prevention programming.”
The Department will also directly deploy personnel to provide emergency responses to promote community safety. “Such efforts shall include, but not be limited to, the following:
(1) Outreach to vulnerable populations and facilitating the delivery of social services, medical care, and case management, through partnerships with city agencies and community-based service providers;
(2) Engaging in safety patrols, in collaboration with community volunteers, that involve maintaining a visible presence in targeted areas to prevent violence and advance a sense of security, and creating safe passage routes within communities and providing walking escorts when requested;
(3) Participating in emergency responses, in coordination with law enforcement and emergency medical services; and
(4) Providing conflict mediation and de-escalation in circumstances that are not likely to result in immediate harm or danger to the public.”
Oh, and the Department will also by order of the Mayor, “Serve any additional function, or role, related to promoting community safety, including through subsuming the functions and powers of any existing office or agency not established pursuant to this charter.”
It doesn’t take a legal scholar to understand that Zohran and his henchmen are creating a brand new and very powerful agency that will pursue an agenda completely distinct from that of public safety. This new department will be based on the central precept of the Democratic Socialists and their allies. Criminals are the victims. It is capitalism that is the real problem. The guy shoving you on the subway tracks and stealing your purse has been forced into this action by the abuses of an illegitimate system. It is he who must be supported, coddled, and empowered.
In point of fact, though, there is nothing new in this proposal other than the fact that the Marxists now have the power to put it into action.
Former public defender Tiffany Cabán, another radical New York City leftist, laid out this plan years ago when running for City Council. That plan was the product of work done by a whole raft of New York City leftists and envisioned effectively neutering the New York City Police Department, shutting down the prison system, and implementing “data-driven initiatives” to keep communities safe.....SNIP
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It will be “interesting” to see what happens.
The Goat Herder Special Attachment.
Mamdani is not going to run NYC he’s just playing with it while he has a great laugh
These folks never can get it through their thick heads that “community policing” in combination with defunding the police is simply gifting criminals an easier get away. Its comical and if we didnt just try thing a few years ago and see it didnt actually work… anywhere from what Ive read, it might be a novel idea. Within 3 years of the summer of love the residents of the big blue cities were begging for policing funding to be restored…. Exc for the criminals of course.
There is nothing democrats love more than breaking things to they give the illusion there is something that needs fixing.
They would make excellent target practice in a red state.
You mean, like, “experts”? LOL.
I seem to recall Robespierre’s ‘Committee of Public Safety’ during the French Revolution.
They had it all their own way, too. They did a lot of damage!
New Guardian Angels? Sliwa may approve.
Department of Community Safety
Is that like the Committee of Public Safety?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_of_Public_Safety
Drug dealer shows up in your neighborhood and is never seen again. A rapist or thief attacks one of your neighbors, he's found hanging from a bridge the next day. No police, remember. Plus it gives us carte blanche to take out the leftists when we see them. No police. These leftists can start getting dropped from helicopters with impunity.
Does this parallel what the nazi party did?
A totally new agency and funding to engage in “safety patrols” in a city with the largest police force in the country which has previously controlled rime effectively during, say, the Guliani years. Can’t wait to see what this really is…
A true friend would help one hide the body.
I would not be surprised if another like William Poole shows up there.
So many miss this exact point. Incredible, the parallels to the French Revolution are unmistakable. And, if you look at the blue cities and blue states you see very similar patterns emerging.
Start everyone off at minimum wage.
Only the \truly\ community-minded will be hired.
See how many takers they get.
Using the derelict class to perpetually fund rat election success. More crime the better for all their do nothing hacks.
The word "cangue" is French, from the Portuguese "canga" ... Frequently translated as pillory, it was similar to that European punishment except that the movement of the prisoner's hands was not as rigorously restricted and that the board of the cangue was not fixed to a base and had to be carried around by the prisoner.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cangue
One might use steel plates welded together. The welds might be photographed to verify it wasn't removed and only replaced shortly before scheduled removal.
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