Mamdani Is Getting Snowballed by His Own NYPD
The situation is absurd. The stakes are real.
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SHE DID IT AGAIN!!!
The situation is absurd. The stakes are real.
The mayor, governor, City Council speaker, and other New York officials past and present agree: It is wrong, and not funny at all, and perhaps a crime, to throw snowballs at New York's Finest.
The court-appointed stop-and-frisk monitor may be starting to wonder.
"DA Katz wants to put him in prison. Hasn't he suffered enough? Locking him up will destroy his life."
"This is why officers should not be responding to medical support calls."
It's every son of a conservative TV host's First Amendment right to deliver video clips that a City lawsuit claims are "harmful," and "cannot be released to the public."
It's too early to expect any massive changes to the nation's largest police department—but here are a few things we've noticed so far.
Whether a conflict with the NYPD can be avoided remains to be seen, but observers that Hell Gate spoke to identified a number of modest but meaningful steps the mayor can take early in his term.
The DA made a big deal about indicting cops for robbing a sex worker this March. Last week, her office quietly let the case get dismissed.
The next front in the war to roll back criminal justice reform was supposed to be juveniles. With a new mayor and a new study casting doubt on the premise, is it still?