Amid a serious meltdown over the victory of Indian-origin Zohran Mamdani within the Democratic main of the New York mayoral election, Republican NYC mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa stated Mamdani has no understanding about how the police division works, and that is why he promised to create a brand new Division of Group Security individually from the police division. This might successfully neuter the police division if cops are compelled to develop into social employees, Sliwa stated to the New York Publish, which reported apprehension over NYC turning into unsafe if Mamdani turns into the mayor. “He has a bizarre notion of how policing is, as if it needs to be individuals like Mahatma Gandhi strolling round, you already know, functioning as a social employee. That doesn’t work,” Sliwa stated.
Zohran Mamdani’s police reform positions
Mamdani promised main NYPD reform, together with redirecting funds from the police division in direction of housing, healthcare and psychological well being companies. He stated the NYPD’s price range was bloated and dangerous and group funding was extra essential over policing. Scott Munro, president of the NYPD Detectives Endowment Affiliation, informed NYP the town could be completely unsafe if Mamdani turns into the mayor. “Should you put a man like him in there, our individuals are going to get harm, and no person’s going to need the job. It’s going to place recruitment again 5 extra steps,” Munro stated.NYPD insiders stated Mamdani clearly hates the NYPD, although he accepted round the clock police safety.Sliwa blamed the rise of Mamdani on Eric Adams’ time in workplace, which was marked by scandals, and stated he’s not going wherever, leaving the mayoral battle. “I am in it till November 4,” he stated. “Now we have to go after the hipster millennials and Gen Zers. It’s the identical group that Donald Trump appealed to,” Sliwa stated. “There isn’t any Zohran Mamdani if Eric Adams had executed an honest job,” Sliwa stated. “He created the environment in order that any individual that no person knew that was at one per cent within the polls again in February may abruptly win a Democratic main towards an iconic determine like Andrew Cuomo.”
