To implement his sweeping agenda, Zohran Mamdani will have to navigate the New York Police Department and its influential union.
Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://theintercept.com/2025/11/05/zohran-mamdani-mayor-police-reform-nypd/
To implement his sweeping agenda, Zohran Mamdani will have to navigate the New York Police Department and its influential union.
Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://theintercept.com/2025/11/05/zohran-mamdani-mayor-police-reform-nypd/
The police are a gang. They’re the reason why local governments have no money throughout the country, they constantly demand more and more
In New York especially, the police are one of the bigger keys to power. There’s like 30k of them, and if they’re not kept in line they go feral
The police commissioner can be fired, but the police themselves? They tend to close ranks
Its talked about in the state lunch rooms.
And I am allowed to say this because it is not pertinent to my job or any secrecies.
Employees here are cognizant that there is no way to get the police to bend their backs.
If anyone tries to do anything to the police, the police all wear masks, and protest in front of the politicians home etc.
Real democratic eh?