While there may not be wholesale changes to the NYPD if Tisch stays as police commissioner, there would be new initiatives under Mamdani, such as a new civilian agency called the Department of Community Safety. The agency would focus on a community-based prevention approach targeting homelessness and people experiencing mental illness.
Its hallmark won’t be adding more police but rather adding more mental health professionals and violence interrupters – a plan Mamdani says he hopes would free up officers to respond to other crimes.
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Looming in the distance as well is the threat of potential federal intervention into crime-fighting in New York City, should Mamdani win the election.
Mamdani has spoken out about President Donald Trump sending National Guard troops into Democrat-run major cities, a move the president says is to restore law and order. Mamdani previously told CNN he would respond to the attempt by filing a lawsuit.
We need to reign the police in all over…
They give them overtime to dick around and say they’re “short staffed” but the harsh truth is in their current capacity more cops will never equal less crime, just more people in jail/prison.
We could double the size of the NYPD, and they’d still all make ridiculous OT, and their commanders will claim they’re short-staffed and underfunded.
No matter what happens, every police organization will say they’re understaffed, because that’s the excuse for OT. They’re like the beggars from South Park where no matter how much you give them, they immediately say “got any change?”
Like, we could be spending that money on healthcare and getting something good out of it, or UBI/assistance so people have an option besides crime
More police will only ever solve the problem of “not enough prisoners” but because of private prisons, they’ll never get “enough”. We’re just paying for more of us to have our rights violated for no reason.
For what it’s worth, New York City got rid of qualified immunity for police officers several years ago. It was a big step in the right direction, but it’s gonna be a long long road…
Oh really?
So since that happened, it would be easy to find examples of cops being held accountable since that change…
Unless…
That’s just bullshit to pacify the masses because no prosecutor or DA will actually hold officers accountable.
Like, I get the “for what it’s worth” qualifier, but it’s obvious fucking bread and circus.
Don’t give them credit for saying bad cops might be held accountable
The police, every single force, needs to be placed under a binding anonymous civilian review board that reviews ALL police complaints. The members are a rotating group much like Jury duty.
2nd, the police union the only union actively involved in union busting should no longer be allowed to represent police or make any policy decisions.
Finally hold them accountable
binding anonymous civilian review board that reviews ALL police complaints.
You can’t just do one that reviews all.
Like, there is an actual reason bureaucracy and while we keep it around.
One central authority is easily compromised. Every department (city, county, state) needs it’s own, with it’s own chain of command above it.
A federal oversight program would be great, but there’s kind of a big example of why we’re better off leaving power with the states.
The Senate isn’t fair representation.
The electoral college isn’t fair representation.
Even the House isn’t fair representation since they froze the number of seats.
I’ll never understand why everyone insists on working thru a system that’s clearly biased against us. We need to be (and the DNC actively is btw) working on getting state governments Dem. Like, if we legitimately want to fix our electoral system, we don’t do that thru the president, we do that thru the states.
We should be fighting against a strong federal government just like Lincoln was when he said they couldn’t outlaw slavery nationally as ptesident, nor could he force deportation of Black people out of Free states against the state government’s wishes.
The slave states started a civil war, because Lincoln wouldnt use the Federal government against free states. Not because they were afraid he’d use the Fed to outlaw slavery.
Like, we fought and won a civil war over this, but neoliberals apparently roofied everyone, and for 30 years both sides wanted all the power centralized, because that’s the easiest to corrupt, and that’s what their oligarch donors wanted.
hotly contested
Is there current polling and predictions? Is NYC inundated with ads right now? I’m wondering what it’s like over there these days.
Basically, Cuomo is doing WORSE than when he lost the primary in a landslide and Curtis Sliwa is doing as bad as ever, but the billionaire-owned media is in denial and hoping that Mamdani will magically lose if they keep wishing and gaslighting hard enough.
I hop Mamdani also has some police accountability projects planned.
I meant one for each police force… comprised of people that live in the jurisdiction. Or perhaps one per county kinda thing