Posted on 11/25/2025 9:22:23 PM PST by SeekAndFind
At least three times a week — and sometimes more — a big story will come out of New York about an awful crime that was committed against an innocent by a criminal who, too often, shouldn't have been walking the streets anyway due to a rap sheet as long as a CVS receipt.
Even just scrolling down the front page of RedState, you can see this story published on Monday that reported that someone stabbed someone else on the New York subway because a person asked them not to talk on their cell phone so loudly.
Charming city.
And it's about to get even better, because incoming New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani just added a man named Alex Vitale to his transition team.
Who is Alex Vitale? He's the guy who says that if you "don't want racism and violence, don't get the police involved."
🚨 New Mamdani Transition Team Member Says Cops Are “Violence Workers” and NYPD–Israel Training Trips “Pervert American Politics”
Alex Vitale — author of The End of Policing, sociology professor at Brooklyn College, CUNY Graduate Center, and now officially part of Zohran Mamdani’s transition team on “community safety” — gave this talk eleven days before George Floyd, when “defund” hadn’t even gone mainstream. He was already a true believer.“Police are violence workers… if you don’t want racism and violence, don’t get the police involved.”
“The institution of policing exists historically to facilitate racial inequality… emerging out of colonialism, slavery, and industrial capitalism.”
“We see our battle with immigrants and gangs and Black people as the same as their battle with terrorists, meaning the Palestinian people.”
The clip may be low-res, but the takeaway isn’t. This is the worldview now sitting inside Mamdani’s transition team, and it’s a preview of the policies to come. pic.twitter.com/n6REJNfbjH— Stu Smith (@thestustustudio) November 24, 2025
Alex Vitale — author of The End of Policing, sociology professor at Brooklyn College, CUNY Graduate Center, and now officially part of Zohran Mamdani’s transition team on “community safety” — gave this talk eleven days before George Floyd, when “defund” hadn’t even gone mainstream. He was already a true believer.
He also said that "police are a direct interference" with "radical socialist oriented politics" that will be "used to stop us."
🚨 Mamdani Transition Pick: “Police Are a Direct Interference” With “Radical Socialist Oriented Politics”… and “They Will Be Used to Stop Us”
Professor Alex Vitale, now on Mamdani’s transition team, says the quiet part out loud, admitting that abolishing the police “creates political space for us to do what we need to do.” pic.twitter.com/3wFicpmxIU— Stu Smith (@thestustustudio) November 25, 2025
Professor Alex Vitale, now on Mamdani’s transition team, says the quiet part out loud, admitting that abolishing the police “creates political space for us to do what we need to do.”
Recently, Mamdani said during his debate with Andrew Cuomo that he has no intention to defund the police, but it's kind of hard to take that kind of talk seriously when he's putting someone on his transition team who is openly hostile to the mere concept of policing.
If you need more proof that he wasn't just rattling off anti-police rhetoric to his socialist friends, keep in mind that Vitale is the author of the book "The End of Policing," in which he advocates for dramatically reducing the budgets and duties of police departments and putting that money into more socialistic ventures like social workers.
I think it's safe to say that Mamdani wasn't at all serious about not wanting to defund the police. He just brought in one of the biggest "defund the police" guys there is.
This is going to spell doom for the NYPD, and that's before Mamdani and Vitale can actually get their hands on it. As I reported in June, officers of the NYPD were already preparing for a mass exodus if Mamdani won:
“The city would be totally unsafe for people who live here,” predicted Scott Munro, president of the NYPD Detectives’ Endowment Association.
“I go to bed and worry about the phone ringing. I’m worried about my members getting killed. I don’t want to plan any funerals,” he added.
“If you put a guy like him in there, our people are going to get hurt, and nobody’s going to want the job. It’s going to put recruitment back five more steps,” Munro said.
NYPD brass are quietly bracing for a potential mass exodus unless Mayor Adams, a Democrat and retired NYPD captain seeking re-election as an independent, or GOP mayoral nominee Curtis Sliwa, pull off an upset. [As we know, that did not happen.]
“I’ve had guys call me and say ‘If he wins, I’m quitting,’” a police source said of Mamdani. “It’s just weird that New York City would vote for him. I know he’s not here for the police.”
Read: New York Is Going to Have Some Major Crime Problems If Mamdani Wins the Mayor's Race
Munro is correct. The NYPD was already bleeding officers before Mamdani won the election, but I'm not entirely sure how the NYPD will stay near battle-ready now. Officers will likely cut and run to other departments outside the city, or possibly even move to different states, and rightly so. It's highly unlikely that Mamdani's regime will have officers' backs, and no one wants to be the next Derek Chauvin.
New Yorkers better brace for impact. Or better yet, leave.
I think PDJT was punking dumdonny.
I don’t know this person, and Mamdani also re-hired crime hawk Jessica Tisch to stay on as NYPD Commissioner...but there are a few points that are worth considering:
- Police DO handle way too many mental health (or drug abuse related) crises calls in our country - and this does distract from the policing of actual crimes...
- There are too many instances where cops, including newbies with ZERO background in psychology respond to unarmed people (who are spewing psychotic or delusional threats) just by shooting them dead because they don’t know what else to do.
- Now, one armed cop *should* show up in case things get violent, but only to accompany people trained in psychology (or psychiatry) responding to the crisis.
Unintended consequences.
When police are hampered and humiliated and threatened with prison if they get into disfavor with a harsh review board, the people take over the enforcement role as “volunteers” as they did in the American Old West.
Denzel Washington as the successor to the late Charles Bronson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyCxIHAbuAI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjctHUEmutw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyNJ3UrGk_I
I hope NY City goes bankrupt. It really needs it.
Are there a lot of cops with one arm?
Give New York City to Hamas/ISIS/Taliban in exchange for peace
😆
Anyone would have to be a fool to be a cop in a blue city.
That place has it coming. Fools.
Upper East Side moms waging war over Zohran Mamdani’s win – and it’s only the beginning: ‘Hate that f—ing guy’
Cant wait for the upper east side nobility like those on the view get a dose of crime
NYC sneaks in 16% pay raises to put on Zohran Mamdani’s desk as welcome gift
- Now, one armed cop *should* show up in case things get violent, but only to accompany people trained in psychology (or psychiatry) responding to the crisis.
Psychologists and psychiatrists are trained to diagnose and treat mental illness—not to physically manage someone who is in an active psychotic episode. Police are the ones who encounter these crises in real time, often with no opportunity to call in a specialist.
So the real solutions are twofold:
There are a lot of cops who are stuck where they are due to pension non-portability. I am acquainted with one. Our sheriff has offered him a job.
I’ve moved exurban in the last few years. I do find it interesting how many cops from other jurisdictions choose to live out where we are despite the long commutes.
Heard an audio clip of him yesterday. This guy has no business being in any decision-making capacity.
“ There are too many instances where cops, including newbies with ZERO background in psychology respond to unarmed people (who are spewing psychotic or delusional threats) just by shooting them dead because they don’t know what else to do.”
A highly doubt that is accurate
Alex needs to become intimate with the blade or a splash of gasoline.
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