{"id":23784,"date":"2025-06-29T06:11:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T06:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/23784\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T06:11:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T06:11:13","slug":"electing-socialist-zohran-mamdani-nyc-mayor-would-spur-cop-exodus-rising-crime-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/23784\/","title":{"rendered":"Electing socialist Zohran Mamdani NYC mayor would spur cop exodus, rising crime: experts"},"content":{"rendered":"

A New York City led by socialist Zohran Mamdani <\/a>will mean a two-pronged breakdown of public safety \u2014 crime spiraling out of control, and NYPD officers leaving en masse \u2014 experts and veteran cops say.<\/p>\n

Critics of the Democratic mayoral nominee and frontrunner heading into November\u2019s general election aren\u2019t buying Mamdani\u2019s 11th-hour vow that he won\u2019t \u201cdefund the police\u201d <\/a>or shrink the NYPD\u2019s workforce if elected \u2014 a reversal of of his longstanding positions.<\/p>\n

Instead, they believe the U-turn during the final weeks of his primary campaign was just a craven political move to score votes with undecided voters.<\/p>\n

A New York City led by socialist Zohran Mamdani (pictured) would mean public safety spiraling out of control with crime rising and NYPD officers leaving in masses, experts and veteran cops told The Post. Christopher Sadowski<\/p>\n

\u201cThe city would be\u00a0totally unsafe for people who live here,\u201d predicted Scott Munro, president of the NYPD Detectives\u2019 Endowment Association. <\/p>\n

\u201cI go to bed and worry about the phone ringing. I\u2019m worried about my members getting killed. I don\u2019t want to plan any funerals,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you put a guy like him in there, our people are going to get hurt, and nobody\u2019s going to want the job. It\u2019s going to put recruitment back five more steps,\u201d Munro said.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve had guys call me and say \u2018If he wins, I\u2019m quitting,\u2019\u201d a police source said of Mamdani. \u201cIt\u2019s just weird that New York City would vote for him. I know he\u2019s not here for the police.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fare beating in subways and other low-level lawlessness would all but be ignored under a Mamdani administration, many law-enforcement experts contend. Christopher Sadowski<\/p>\n

An NYPD officer planning to soon retire after nearly two decades on the job said the city\u2019s predominantly far-left leadership \u2014 especially on the City Council \u2014 already favors criminals over cops, and he believes such sentiment would grow worse under Mamdani.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis guy thinks the entire NYPD is racist,\u201d the veteran said. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think right now the department is more diverse than it ever was before. I don\u2019t think this guy has even stepped foot in a precinct. He\u2019s completely clueless to what the police department is today.\u00a0He\u2019s just going off a narrative that if you hate cops you\u2019re going to get elected.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mamdani a long history of calling for huge cuts to the NYPD but he now claims he has no plans to shrink the police force. ZUMAPRESS.com<\/p>\n

Mamdani\u2019s far-left platform<\/a> doesn\u2019t include hiring more cops, a vow most other mayoral candidates made.<\/p>\n

Instead, he wants to create a new Department of Community Safety that operates separately from the Police Department. It would dramatically expand so-called \u201cviolence interrupter programs\u201d <\/a>and mental health teams that respond to 911 calls \u2014 especially in the city\u2019s subway system, where violent attacks by unhinged homeless people have been commonplace.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s trying to take the existing Police Department and turn them into social workers,\u201d said Sliwa, founder of the Guardian Angels. \u201cHe wants to . . . neuter the Police Department.<\/p>\n

\u201cCops would not be able to function as they have taken their solemn oath to do, to protect us, to go out there and grab those who are committing crimes and to have them locked up,\u201d Sliwa added.<\/p>\n

Mamdani won Tuesday\u2019s Democratic mayoral primary. Paul Martinka<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has a weird notion of how policing is, as if it should be people like Mahatma Gandhi walking around, you know, functioning as a social worker. That does not work.\u201d<\/p>\n

Under Adams\u2019 NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, who Mamdani has said he\u2019d consider retaining if elected, major crimes \u2013 including homicides, robberies and shootings \u2014 are down 2% to date compared to last year and 8% since 2019.<\/p>\n

A longtime NYPD detective said he envisions the Big Apple under Mamdani\u2019s leadership morphing into a crime-ridden \u201cGotham City\u201d \u2014 straight out of \u201cBatman.\u201d<\/p>\n

The detective also said it is \u201chypocritical\u201d of Mamdani to accept round-the-clock, police-detail protection as a mayoral candidate while clearly disliking the NYPD.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have police protecting you, but you don\u2019t want to protect the people of New York City?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mamdani doesn\u2019t want NYPD cops dealing with the homeless in most situations \u2014 including those who are violent. Stephen Yang<\/p>\n

Former Mayor Bill de Blasio said he believes Mandani has been unfairly \u201cdemonized\u201d as anti-NYPD. Robert Miller<\/p>\n

However, far-left ex-NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio said he believes Mamdani has been unfairly \u201cdemonized\u201d during the campaign \u2013 especially by ex-Gov. and mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo \u2014 and that New Yorkers shouldn\u2019t expect mass lawlessness under the 33-year-old socialist pol.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe wants to keep the city safe,\u201d de Blasio insisted to The Post. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHe understands as a local elected official how important public safety is to people, and it\u2019s not going to help him achieve his economic agenda if the city isn\u2019t safe.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has a chance to choose a leader who shares his vision of getting more mental healthcare work done by healthcare professionals, rather than police officers,\u201d added the ex-mayor, an avid Mamdani backer. \u201cI think a lot of police officers would agree with that.<\/p>\n

Scott Munro, president of the NYPD Detectives\u2019 Endowment Association, said he believes there could be a mass exodus of cops leaving the NYPD if Mamdani is mayor. \u201cNobody will take the job,\u201d he said. Helayne Seidman<\/p>\n

Mamdani did not return messages.<\/p>\n

Hank Sheinkopf, a longtime consultant of Democratic campaigns and law-enforcement agencies, said he\u2019s not buying Mamdani\u2019s claim that he won\u2019t gut the NYPD if elected mayor.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis supporters say\u201d he\u2019ll defund the police, said Sheinkopf. \u201cThat\u2019s who he is, and that\u2019s what\u2019s gonna happen, and we can\u2019t afford to lose a single cop. If this guy gets in power, we\u2019re gonna lose a lot of cops.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A New York City led by socialist Zohran Mamdani will mean a two-pronged breakdown of public safety \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,7792,21481,5340,5289,12939,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5341,5257,7207,17953,80,10452,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969,5301],"class_list":{"0":"post-23784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-batman","10":"tag-bill-de-blasio","11":"tag-curtis-sliwa","12":"tag-eric-adams","13":"tag-jessica-tisch","14":"tag-metro","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkcity","19":"tag-ny","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-nyc-mayoral-election-2025","22":"tag-nypd","23":"tag-police","24":"tag-police-officers","25":"tag-politics","26":"tag-socialism","27":"tag-united-states","28":"tag-united-states-of-america","29":"tag-unitedstates","30":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","31":"tag-us","32":"tag-us-news","33":"tag-usa","34":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114765174167963345","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}