Democratic bigs hoping to blue-wash Zohran Mamdani’s anti-cop record are hinting that he might retain tough-on-crime NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch if he takes City Hall in November.
File that under “Blowing Smoke Up Our Collective Rear Ends.”
Tisch has made it clear that the drop in shootings and murders on her watch relies on tight cooperation between City Hall and One Police Plaza.
“When the critics called to cut funding,” she declared recently, Mayor Eric Adams “chose to cut crime. When the pressure came to back down — he chose to double down. And when others tried to make headlines — he chose to make a difference.”
The commissioner has a duty to avoid politics, so she can’t spell it out, but Mamdani has always been one of those critics — and plainly wouldn’t choose to do what’s needed to cut crime: His approach is fundamentally opposed to Tisch’s hallmark policies of proactive, quality-of-live policing.
In pretending he could keep the commissioner on, Mamdani proxies such as state Attorney General Tish James and city Comptroller Brad Lander are simply trying to blur away his long and terrible record on public safety.
“Defund the police” isn’t just a slogan for Mamdani, it’s central to his worldview: Let’s go to the tape.
- In Dec. 2020, Mamdani called the NYPD so “wicked & corrupt” that there is no hope of reforming it. The only solution is to “Defund it. Dismantle it.”
- “Defunding the police is a feminist issue,” he posted in June 2020. Oh, and “queer liberation means defund the police.”
- Instead, he insisted, we must rely on social workers, “violence interrupters” and “neighborhood change agents.”
- In case we didn’t get the point, that same month, after then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo suggested that “Defund the Police” mostly means something else, Mamdani commented: “No, we want to defund the police.”
- Mamdani and his fellow Astoria socialist, City Councilwoman Tiffany Caban, jointly issued a 2022 resource guide for handling street violence that doesn’t include the numbers 9-1-1.
Instead, it suggests that you “give the person causing harm the chance to correct their behaviors” — and if that kumbaya approach doesn’t dissuade, say, a knife-wielding maniac, Mamdani and Caban advise you to “distract” your assailant by “spilling your soda.”
And if that doesn’t work, ask your attacker, “Hey, didn’t I go to high school with you?”
It’s sure to stop that subway shover!
Our would-be mayor is on record that getting rid of the police isn’t enough: Jails and prisons must go, too: “The entire carceral system is an unreformable public health hazard,” he fumed in Dec. 2020. “Defund & dismantle.”
Where do these freed cons go once Mamdani closes down the jail system? Well, you’ve probably got space in your apartment, Comrade!
People “going through” domestic violence — weasel words for battered women and kids — don’t need “an individual with a gun” to help them, Zohran advised in July 2020; he wants to send social workers instead.
Insane: One in every three NYC female murder victims has been killed by her intimate partner.
Surely we can trust abused women who call 911 to know what they are doing and are calling for a cop.
Lefties fantasize that social workers can replace the work of cops in dangerous, violent situations.
They have been trying this for decades, but no social worker is equipped to defuse these incidents — which is why they don’t volunteer to do it.
Zohran Mamdani’s surrogates have a whisper campaign to deceive the voters about how radical he really is.
But you can believe them or your own lying ears.
