Posted on 11/05/2026 5:25:24 AM PST by MtnClimber
When Islamic terrorists strike, when there’s an active shooter or a riot in progress, the elite members of the NYPD’s Strategic Response Group are there as the tip of the spear.
The SRG is more than a SWAT team, it’s a rapid response group made up of hundreds of officers that can be deployed anywhere in New York City to deal with crisis situations. Created in response to the Bataclan massacre carried out by Islamic terrorists in Paris, members of the SRG receive advanced counterterrorism training, have special equipment and are ready to jump into action.
SRG replaced the NYPD’s Hercules teams that were set up after the Muslim terrorist attacks in Mumbai meant to provide “an effective fighting force if challenged by terrorists”. The SRGs were trained to deal with suicide bombers, heavily armed terrorists and violent insurgencies.
When running for office, Zohran Mamdani, the Muslim foreign politician, promised to defund and abolish the SRG after various members of the pro-crime movement and terrorist defense lobbies in New York City, including the NYCLU and the Vera Institute for Justice, had clamored that the SRG was violating ‘civil rights’ and restraining BLM and pro-Hamas rioters.
Mamdani has not yet been able to fulfill his pledge to abolish the SRG, but he has crippled the elite unit by ordering that it can only be deployed with his approval. This eliminates much of the useful of a rapid response team that can respond immediately to a crisis without having to get the approval of a politician who seems to spend most of his time at rallies and doing TikTok videos.
SRG deployments can occur in response to early intelligence warnings of an Islamic terrorist attack. Mamdani’s security clearance took a great deal of time to approve, likely because of his ties to Islamic terrorists and their political allies. His pick for Chief Counsel had been the lawyer for the 20th hijacker. There is an obvious conflict between an elite counterterrorism unit that is meant to act on intelligence about possible Islamic terrorist plots having to get pre-approval from a politician with Islamic terrorist ties who struggled to get his security clearance approved.
The problem is even more urgent because, as Freedom Center Investigates found earlier this year, Islamic terrorist attacks are up 243% in Mamdani’s first year occupying Gracie Mansion and “3 out of 4 Islamic terrorist plots in New York City in the last three years took place after Mamdani’s election ‘victory’.” The last time that there were this many Islamic terrorist attacks in New York City in one year was nearly a decade ago in 2017 during the ISIS boom.
This shows why the SRG is needed more than ever even as Mamdani is trying to eliminate it.
The official objections have been to SRG’s riot response, but the massive Muslim-Marxist riots in Paris, which have been spreading across Europe, show exactly why that’s also needed.
Mamdani’s jihad against the NYPD’s Special Response Group continues the dismantling of what had been the most elite counterterrorism police force in the country. The NYPD’s counterterrorism intelligence capabilities are a shell of what they once were when the police force was able to disrupt Muslim terrorist plots before they happened.
Under former Mayor Bill de Blasio, a close political ally of Mamdani’s mentor Linda Sarsour, much of the NYPD’s counterterrorism intelligence operations, which monitored terror mosques, were shelved, and instead the NYPD launched the useless Racially and Ethnically Motivated Extremism unit (R.E.M.E.) to combat ‘right-wing extremism’ in a city far to the left of the country.
R.E.M.E., created after a black nationalist massacre of Jews in Jersey City, was hailed by the media as a way to stop “right-wing extremism”. The only significant mention of the unit, which had been billed in one story as “seeking out antisemitism before it occurs”, making actual arrests, was the recent arrest of a man for supposedly plotting to firebomb the home of terrorist supporter Nerdeen Kiswani who had celebrated Hamas and whose rallies featured the burning of American flags. This follows the transformation of the NYPD’s counterterrorism and intelligence capabilities from stopping Islamic terrorism to running cover for Islamic terrorists.
Mamdani’s plot to dismantle the NYPD’s Strategic Response Group would further cripple the ability of the police to resist Islamic terrorism and the Marxist-Muslim riots of the Left.
The reasons for that are unfortunately all too obvious.
Despite the ongoing threat of Islamic terrorism, Islamic groups and radical leftist organizations waged a sustained campaign to smear any counterterrorism, at either the local or national levels, as ‘Islamophobic’ and to castigate any efforts at riot control as vicious and abusive.
The unstated goal is to leave New York City open to Islamic terrorism and to major riots.
If Zohtan Mamdani succeeds in dismantling the SRG, that will send a clear signal to everyone from ISIS to the rioting mobs that it’s open season on New York City. And that will cost lives.
But the same pro-crime movement fighting to shut down the SRG has never flinched from the devastating consequences of its pro-crime policies, like eliminating bail so that violent criminals are cut loose within hours of their latest assault, and much of the New York Democrat Party has embraced those policies and refused to back away from them despite the heavy toll on crime victims. The pro-crime movement still seeks to free all criminals by eliminating prisons and to eliminate the police and replace them with social workers. Naturally, the SRG has to go.
And for Zohran Mamdani and his Islamic terrorist allies, the SRG is an even bigger problem.
When two Muslim terrorists targeted critics of the Muslim politician outside Gracie Mansion, a massacre might have happened if their bombs had worked properly. The two teenage terrorists were reportedly recorded calculating that their bombs were “going to kill about 8 to 16 people,” or as many as 60 people if the area were crowded. In this kind of scenario, the NYPD’s SRG isn’t protecting Mamdani, it’s protecting his opponents from his supporters.
And so dismantling the NYPD’s counterterrorism capabilities can only politically benefit Mamdani even as it opens the door for Muslim terrorists to massacre New Yorkers.
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I feel sorry for the people in NYC that did not vote for this.
Mamdani is a lunatic he’s a democrat for a reason.
I’m with him. New Yorkers elected him.so everything he does to them is o.k. by me. Stupidity should hurt. It [stupidity] is going to kill our Constitutional Republic. I very seriously doubt if er, as a Nation, recover from this one.
This might be the case, and it probably is.
However, reading this triggered something. There is a lot of fear on what the Dems will do. From Mamdani shutting down NYPD anti-terrorism capabilities, President Trump getting impeached, the Sec of War getting impeached, Socialism, I even personally got sucked into a debate on what happens now to AI.
All sorts of things, and I am sure there is merit to all of them and the Dems will attempt versions of all of that over the next 24 months starting June. Lots of time for them to experiment, destroy, overreach.
But all that talk made me feel like there was something important being hidden amongst all that noise, and I think it might be this: the US Supreme Court.
Justice Clarence Thomas (78) and Justice Samuel Alito (76) are the most Conservative (big ‘C’ conservative) on the Court, and come January they will be ZERO way for Trump to successfully nominate replacements.
It is very possible the Democrats could control the Senate until the next decade.
The biggest advantage we have as Conservatives is not the seat at the White House, but knowing that we have proper American patriots who are pro-Constitution seated at the Supreme Court. Unfortunately, the two who are the e most consistently Conservative are quite old.
Maybe all the talk and noise is to avoid proper focus on that one thing.
Yes, I know maybe I’m being paranoid on this, but people are paranoid on this forum on 10,000 other things, and I’d be happy that this is the one I’ve decided to check under my bed for.
We all know the Dems will pursue revenge, shut down NYPD anti terrorism activities, try to sour the milk in granny’s fridge. Not much we can do about that now …maybe if more people voted our way on Tuesday, even if it meant holding their noses, but that is in the past now.
I could be crazy (I probably am), but maybe it would be great if President Trump explored nominating one (maybe two) Justices that are youngish, Conservative, and can be part of his legacy even when he’s gone.
Maybe people like Senator Cruz: yes, I know some don’t like him, but he’s a Conservative. I also know him stepping down would mean another Texas seat at risk of going to the Dems, but it’s too late and Texas is already Blue for now.
Whatever choice is done, I hope people don’t forget that come January 2027 the Supreme Court is at stake.
Sounds like France during Cardinal Richeliou’s attempt to shut down the Musketeers. If there were a few Leaders in this anti terrorist police force that would turn vigilante, that might help. Islams only fear violence against them, nothing else will stop them.
It feels like 2008 again..
I don’t feel sorry for anybody that lives in New York. And I hope he does The following
1. Mandatory prayers to Allah
2. Women must wear burkas or face a death sentence.
3. 100% Sharia law.
4. All Jews have 30 days to leave.
5. Pedophilia legalized.
It feels like 2008 again..
On getting male white voters for this. We all know it’s mostly Tucker Carlson’s crime
9-11 was a long time ago.
It’s a tough situation in NYC and the republic. The MoFos are smart in the ways of jihad. They’ve had centuries to practice their evil. Our experiment in self-government has only seen 250 years. They have barracks around the world indoctrinating the believers to pursue the purpose. They have 57 countries and 1.5 billion soldiers. The current destruction of civilizations and murder of humans are a reminder to soldiers and converts of the effectiveness of the plan. It’s a horrible reality for innocent individuals who want peace and freedom.
“Zohran Mamdani is an active member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and strongly supports the organization.”
One of DSA’s stated goals, and is readily available on their platform, is defunding police departments and closing prisons and jails:
“Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) explicitly calls for defunding police and abolishing prisons. Its current national platform...states that redirecting funding is a step toward ‘fully abolishing the police and prison system which protects the rich and jails the poor.’”
While they live behind security and armed guards, of course.
Who are basically unarmed.
It seems to go hand and hand with the office lately. They keep getting worse and eventually something big will occur.
something big will occur.
Maybe the names of the groups of the communist socialist marxist members ?.
Yep, let every New Yorker fear for their lives as terrorist rampage unimpeded thru the city! Even those who did not vote for him because they are too dumb to Escape from New York.
Mamdani knows that the history of Islam is totally peaceful, unlike the violent Christians and Jews.
Note to anyone who wants to commit murder. Say praise to Allah and get off scott free,
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