New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani never quite promised to reform the police.
Mamdani had little trouble during his bombshell campaign convincing leftists that his sweeping vision for a socialist-governed metropolis included criminal policy reforms that would satiate them.
He promised to eliminate some of the most notorious of the New York Police Department’s institutions — a widely criticized gang database and infamous Strategic Response Group, which responds to protests and whose officers have histories of higher complaint rates. Mamdani outlined an ambitious vision to divert police away from responding to mental health crises, proposing an Office of Community Safety.
New data on how much the New York City is spending to pay for police misconduct, however, has heightened concerns among advocates that paltry rate of changes to policing under Mamdani could lead to even higher payouts in coming years. The first six months of the Mamdani administration saw $53 million in police misconduct settlements, according to an analysis of NYPD data by the public defense group Legal Aid Society.
If the figures continue to grow at that rate under Mamdani, it will make 2026 the fourth year in a row that police misconduct settlements top $100 million.
His capitulation to the NYPD and disavowal of Defund has been my top disappointment about him.
it’s how you know that he’s a compatible leftist
Never heard that term in this context. What do you mean by “compatible”?
“compatible left” is a political science term given to historical phenomenon and madeline pendelton does a better job at describing it than i ever could: https://tankie.tube/w/3tqvCakFHj8MAwPu1R7pmK
Makes a lot of sense. I guess I was familiar with the concept without knowing it had a proper term. Thanks for the link!
i strongly recommend pendelton to learn more – she has a knack for explain complicated leftist concepts in ways that are easy to understand.
