{"id":53617,"date":"2025-11-27T00:41:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T00:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/53617\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T00:41:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T00:41:04","slug":"new-york-county-police-to-install-additional-surveillance-anticipating-mayor-elect-mamdanis-radical-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/53617\/","title":{"rendered":"New York county police to install additional surveillance, anticipating Mayor-elect Mamdani’s ‘radical policies’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bruce Blakeman, the executive of Nassau County, New York, ordered the suburban Long Island county\u2019s police department this week to install extra surveillance technology \u2014 including facial recognition cameras and license plate readers \u2014 at the New York City border because of Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani\u2019s \u201cradical policies.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an interview<\/a> on Monday with Fox News, Blakeman, a Republican who was re-elected this month, said he will take extra precautions to preserve law and order in Nassau County in light of Mamdani\u2019s socialist politics. Mamdani, 34, who this month won the New York City mayor\u2019s race by 9 percentage points over former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, is famously a proud member of the Democratic Socialists of America.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve directed the Nassau County Police Department to install advanced cameras and security technology along the border with New York City,\u201d Blakeman told Fox News. \u201cWith the incoming mayor\u2019s radical policies, we\u2019re taking proactive steps to protect our residents and maintain law and order. This new technology will enhance our ability to read license plates, improve video monitoring and strengthen our overall security posture. Nassau County will always take every measure necessary to keep our communities safe.\u201d<\/p>\n

(Blakeman could not be reached for comment. The Nassau County Police Department declined to comment.)<\/p>\n

Nassau County is home to roughly 1.3 million residents, with roughly 100,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans, according to the New York State Board of Elections. Blakeman, who won his race for county executive by almost 12 percentage points, claimed his victory was due to his stance on increasing public safety and support from President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

Trump, who also disparaged Mamdani, met with the mayor-elect last Friday, in what both called a \u201cproductive meeting.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cNew York State was an area that was safe, and I think basically that\u2019s what the people are craving. I supported the president, and I continue to support the president,\u201d Blakeman told Fox News. <\/p>\n

Though Mamdani has walked back comments calling the police racist and a public safety threat, he has stood by a proposal<\/a> to hire more mental-health workers to work alongside law enforcement. Some of his opponents, including Blakeman and Cuomo, have insisted that Mamdani\u2019s administration will cause crime to rise.<\/p>\n

During the mayoral campaign, Cuomo, who ran as an independent, used<\/a> artificial intelligence to alter an image, for an unused campaign flyer, that darkened Mamdani\u2019s beard<\/a> and claimed his opponent \u201crejected the NYPD.\u201d Mamdani, a Uganda-born Muslim of Indian descent, called the image manipulation \u201cIslamophobic.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\"Sophia<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tWritten by Sophia Fox-Sowell
\n\t\t\tSophia Fox-Sowell reports on artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and government regulation for StateScoop. She was previously a multimedia producer for CNET, where her coverage focused on private sector innovation in food production, climate change and space through podcasts and video content. She earned her bachelor\u2019s in anthropology at Wagner College and master\u2019s in media innovation from Northeastern University.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bruce Blakeman, the executive of Nassau County, New York, ordered the suburban Long Island county\u2019s police department this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[29547,29548,3280,9,24,55,54,56,29549,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-53617","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-alpr","9":"tag-facial-recognition","10":"tag-mayoral-race","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-city-news","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-surveillance-technology","17":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}