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New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has promised to “defund the police”; recently, he has tried to suggest that he didn’t really mean that, but his late disclaimer has convinced no one, any more than his late attempts to present himself as a stout opponent of antisemitism have been believed. It is clear that he is no fan of the police, seeing them as part of a white power structure that oppresses “black and brown” people. He is apparently unaware that it is “black and brown” people who are those most likely to be victimized by criminals. Because of the threat of Mamdani winning, police in New York are retiring before he has a chance to take office, when he might then create an atmosphere more hostile to the police, reflecting his own views. And he could impose a new way to calculate retirement pay less favorable than what the NYPD officers have today.
More on the worry over Mamdani’s hostility to the police can be found here: “NYC cops would flee the job in historic numbers if Zohran Mamdani wins, union leaders predict,” by Tina Moore, New York Post, July 5, 2025:
Police officers are retiring in historic numbers — and the exodus will only accelerate if anti-cop Democratic Mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani is elected, union officials warned this week.
As of Monday, 1,555 NYPD officers put in their papers — 48% more than the 1,049 who retired last year, and 65% more than a decade ago, when just 941 turned in their shields, according to NYPD data provided to The Post by the Police Benevolent Association.
Union leaders weren’t aware of any time in history that retirements for the first six months of year were as high, and worry about the disastrous affect the lefty Mamdani could have on NYPD recruitment and retention.
“We can’t afford to have a mayor who ignores the problem or tries to take us backward,” said PBA President Patrick Hendry. “We need a mayor who will speak up for police officers, and treat us and pay us like the professionals we are.”
The PBA hasn’t endorsed a mayoral candidate in this year’s race….
“The Democratic candidate who won is very anti-cop,” said the officer, who has more than 20 years on the job. “He has an extremist attitude and it’s going to scare other cops and they will go out the door.”
The cop has been particularly incensed over “blanket statements” Mandami has made about cops, including advocating for defunding the NYPD, a stance he later reversed during a debate in June.
Mandami has labeled the NYPD “wicked and corrupt” on X, and called for the department to be dismantled….
In thought, word, and deed, Zohran Mamdani has made clear he has little love for the NYPD. For him, they are part of the white establishment — though many police are themselves “black or brown” — whom he clearly believes do not protect, but oppress, those for whom Mamdani presumes to speak. His support for “defunding the police” is a policy that he has now tried to walk back, given the ferocious opposition it aroused, but it is clear that his heart is still with defunding, and should he become mayor, no longer needing to win the votes of police and their supporters, he will likely return to his defunding policies. He will cap overtime pay, institute a partial hiring freeze, end the calculation of retirement pay based only on the highest salary attained in a year by the retiree, and create an atmosphere of hostility to the police that will lower morale of those still serving, and decrease the attractiveness of the occupation to possible new recruits.
New York will become a more dangerous city, especially for its poorer citizens. But why should Zohran Mamdani care? He’ll be living in Gracie Mansion, already planning his next political move — for he has a lean and hungry look, ands already sees the mayoralty as a stepping-stone to higher office — perhaps as a congressman, replacing his friend and helpmeet Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should she run for senator. Or he might even run for senator himself, just like that other democratic socialist, Senator Bernie Sanders. The New York Police be damned; he’s got bigger things than the city and its safety in mind. It’s onward and upward with Zohran Mamdani!
Thanks Hugh !!!!!!!
I haven’t been to NYC since 1980 and have no intention of ever going there again. But if this Marxist Jew Hating Muslim manages to get elected, hopefully every Jew and conservative bails on NYC.
Basically give NYC, with MamiWho’sYourDaddy running things, and NY State, the political enema it has needed for a long time. The state and the city will go broke. NYC will become the crime ridden hellhole it deserves to be. Perhaps Western NY breaks off from eastern NY.
Hochul won’t know how to fix it because she is a dumbass Democrat. Can’t wait.
I’m afraid many Jewish liberal NYC residents look to their own virtue signaling before their own interests and safety. They will vote and in large numbers for this guy.
No truer words were ever written,
It’s the “Mossad” you ignorant Muslim falafel sh*t Sandwich. Eat a bag of dicks, Mohammed.
You seem to be overly fascinated with Bathhouses, just like your buttboy Obama was .
Good article!
There was a stabbing on the NYC subway yesterday, btw.
Watch the flow of demographics – President Trump is reelected and Customs and Border Patrol who threw in the towel with demoniac open borders autopen are coming back and recruitment for the panoply of law enforcement and military is at an all time historical high!
This same frustrating lunatic psychology looming over NYC – these officers are not waiting for the other shoe to drop – The assaults without prosecution against NYC police are bad enough – demoncrap chants of defund law enforcement is psychologically infringing . I retired from 20 years working in law enforcment along with common sense critical thinking – injuries and death can happen if a law enforcement officer is not at his or her peak.
NYC cops are very smart to turn in their badges and get the hell out of Dodge while they can if they can.
Mamdani aka Madmani doesn’t care about citizen safety. He will have his own private security detail armed to the teeth.
Maybe NYC will turn into London.
Of course Mamdani wants a weakened police force. And a
socialist policy of freebies for all until the city crumbles into
insolvency. A desperate, impoverished populace fearful of
crime is more easily subdued by Islam than a prosperous,
thriving one of people who can think for themselves.
New York City falling to Islam – makes Mamdani America’s
biggest danger.
It’s already happened in Europe where Muslims are running cities one by one, falling like dominoes.
Zohran Mamdani with is awful plan to defund the police force is foolishness and folly, and most likely is disingenuous in a sinister Marxist sense.
Nevertheless ,One thing is for sure, which is if the police force is defunded then there in American cities and even towns there a drastic raise in crime especially heinous vile violent murderous crimes, as rapes and murderers along with rapes and the murder of the rapes victims. There would be more kidnappings and then along with that, many times, the torture and murder of the innocent people who had been kidnapped. Also more robberies and vicious violent assaults on peaceful people by hooligans and well as more vile sex assaults.
There would be a sharp and awful increase of wife and child abuse. In addition, there would be a terrible large inflation of riots along with the arson, looting and vandalism that is always part of it.
There would even in non-riots be an increase in home and business break- in’s with looting vandalism and physical harm committed against the peaceful people by thugs.
There can be no doubt that many people who now want the police to be defunded would be first to complain if they would become a victims of hooligans.
Therefore, the police definitely be well funded and supported and never defunded.
Furthermore, that Communist ,Mandani , probably with his sinister scheme to defund the police, in might intentionally want to increase crime to ruin New York City in the Marxist hopes that that fantasy to such crime chaos and mayhem would spread to other cities across the United States.
As Karl Marx had written “If we can but weld our souls together, then with contempt shall I fling my glove in the world’s face, then I shall stride through the wreckage a creator !”