{"id":96178,"date":"2026-01-11T02:16:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T02:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/96178\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T02:16:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T02:16:06","slug":"nyc-is-in-grave-danger-with-mamdanis-anti-policing-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/96178\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC is in grave danger with Mamdani\u2019s anti-policing policies"},"content":{"rendered":"

The late Colin Powell<\/a>, in an interview about the difference between governing and campaigning, invoked his long experience and humor to describe it this way: \u201cI think any human being with an IQ over 40, who is a mammal, loves governing more than campaigning.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a shame that Powell, a top military leader and a secretary of state who died in 2021, isn\u2019t available to counsel Zohran Mamdani<\/a>. <\/p>\n

If he were, perhaps he could get through to New York\u2019s new mayor, who appears to be so in love with campaigning that he can\u2019t kick the habit.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Though he\u2019s been in office less than two weeks, Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s Socialist-echoing choices of words and topics are early warning signs of trouble ahead.\u00a0 ZUMAPRESS.com<\/p>\n

How else to explain Mamdani\u2019s grating tendency to speak in ways that appeal only to his base of far-leftist supporters? <\/p>\n

Though he\u2019s been in office less than two weeks, his Socialist-echoing choices of words and topics are early warning signs of trouble ahead.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMichael Goodwin<\/p>\n

The 34-year-old mayor was in clear campaign mode last week when he parroted the radical mob condemning events in Minnesota and used the most loaded language possible.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018Murdered\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis morning, an ICE agent murdered a woman in Minneapolis \u2014 only the latest horror in a year full of cruelty,\u201d Mamdani said in a statement on X<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAs ICE attacks our neighbors across America, it is an attack on us all. New York stands with immigrants today, and every day that follows.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The stew of anti-ICE bile, the use of the inflammatory word \u201cmurder\u201d and his habit of erasing the distinction between legal and illegal immigrants are all standard fare among far-left wackos.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Such fact-free remarks would not carry much weight if Mamdani were still a junior legislator in Albany, where nobody cares what newbies say.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But he is now the mayor of America\u2019s largest city, giving far greater significance to all his words.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And because the vast majority of 8.5 million New Yorkers did not vote for him, it\u2019s time he starts to behave as something other than a candidate and a junior back-bencher.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Video footage taken by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shows Renee Nicole Good on Jan. 7, 2026, moments before she was shot and killed in Minneapolis. ALPHA NEWS\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Most importantly, he is in charge of and responsible for the nation\u2019s largest police force.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The NYPD has 35,000 men and women in its ranks, and they are trained extensively in situations where they must make crucial decisions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They are armed because their No. 1 job is to protect innocent lives, and they have every right to expect that their mayor will back them in those life-and-death situations \u2014 unless and until the facts prove the officers acted improperly.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On that front, the first big tests came quickly, and Mamdani\u2019s response earned him a big fat F \u2014 for failure.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Not long after he used the word \u201cmurder\u201d to describe the ICE shooting in Minneapolis, he was confronted by two fatal NYPD shootings.\u00a0<\/p>\n

His initial reaction was not what cops have a right to expect, and not what Commissioner Jessica Tisch<\/a> hoped for, The Post reports.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Police vehicles are parked outside NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital on Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026, in Brooklyn, after an NYPD officer shot a man wielding a sharp object inside. AP<\/p>\n

Both incidents took place Thursday, with the first in NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital in Park Slope.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Officials said a bloodied patient barricaded himself<\/a> in a room with a sharp, broken piece of a toilet and was trying to hurt another patient and a member of the hospital\u2019s security staff in a blood-smeared room.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After Tasers failed to stop the assailant, police fired their weapons, killing him. <\/p>\n

He was later identified as 62-year-old Michael Lynch, a one-time police officer who resigned from the force some 30 years ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Major leagues\u00a0<\/p>\n

The second shooting unfolded<\/a> six hours later when cops were flagged down at the scene of a road rage incident in the West Village.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They said a motorist, later identified as 37-year-old Dmitry Zass, walked out of a BMW, apparently with a gun in his hand.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When he refused to drop the gun, cops opened fire and struck Zass, who was pronounced dead at a local hospital. <\/p>\n

Officers said his weapon was a realistic-looking imitation of a Sig Sauer handgun.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a new social media post, Mamdani said<\/a> the shootings were \u201cdevastating to all New Yorkers\u201d and that \u201cI know many are eager for answers. The NYPD is conducting an internal investigation \u2014 I will work with Commissioner Tisch to ensure this is as thorough and swift as possible.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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His use of the word \u201cdevastating\u201d and the emphasis on an \u201cinternal investigation\u201d were reportedly seen by many in the NYPD as casting doubt on the officers\u2019 decisions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While Tisch also noted that there would be internal probes, which are standard, she added that she believed the officers acted properly.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If nothing else, the incidents marked a \u201cwelcome to the major leagues\u201d moment for Mamdani.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The size of the force and the huge civilian population mean citizen-police clashes are inevitable and frequent.<\/p>\n

Not all lead to violence, but the potential is always there.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In 20234, cops made more than 260,000 arrests, and used some level of force more than 11,000 times, according to a department report summarized in The City.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Weapons-related arrests are the most volatile, and police were involved in 14 fatal shootings that year, the report says.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The vast scope of the encounters and the potential for violence is such that a mayor who instinctively distrusts the police will soon find himself undermining their performance and at war with the rank-and-file.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t be de Blasio\u00a0<\/p>\n

That approach might initially play well for Mamdani\u2019s political base, but long-term, it carries the seeds of political and civic disaster.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If he doesn\u2019t have their backs, police officers, rookies and veterans alike, are more likely to walk away from trouble than tackle it. <\/p>\n

That could lead to a city swamped by crime, which would doom Mamdani\u2019s tenure.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Indeed, his past means he is already viewed with suspicion.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A key factor is that Mamdani has rarely if ever recognized the risks of policing, and identified himself as anti-cop years ago by calling them \u201cracist\u201d and supporting the \u201cdefund\u201d movement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In those ways, he resembles Mayor Putz, a\u200ak\u200aa Bill de Blasio<\/a>, whom Mamdani foolishly called his favorite mayor.\u00a0<\/p>\n

De Blasio\u2019s relationship with the NYPD became so toxic that cops turned their backs on him at a police funeral.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If Mamdani is as smart as his supporters believe he is, he will ignore de Blasio\u2019s approach and learn from three other predecessors, Eric Adams<\/a>, Rudy Giuliani<\/a> and Michael Bloomberg<\/a>. <\/p>\n

They all wisely took the position that police, like all citizens, are innocent until proven guilty.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That stance is the minimum that law enforcement officers need and deserve. <\/p>\n

After all, they are risking their lives to defend ours.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The least a mayor, or for that matter, any New Yorker, can do is give them the benefit of the doubt until the facts are gathered.\u00a0<\/p>\n

To do otherwise is to do what Mamdani did about the Minnesota incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n

His fact-free overreaction echoed the ICE-hating words of dopey Gov. Tim Walz<\/a> and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Their far-left condemnation of law enforcement invites chaos and insurrection. <\/p>\n

If that\u2019s the path Mamdani follows in New York, Katie bar the door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The late Colin Powell, in an interview about the difference between governing and campaigning, invoked his long experience…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5302,43894,5800,9,24,55,54,56,103,299,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-96178","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-jessica-tisch","9":"tag-minneapolis-ice-shooting-2026","10":"tag-minnesota","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-nypd","17":"tag-opinion","18":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96178","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=96178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}