‘As if people like Mahatma Gandhi…’: Republican leader says Zohran Mamdani has no idea how cops work

Zohran Mamdani earlier mentioned he would redirect NYPD’s price range and will not rent extra cops.

Amid a significant meltdown over the victory of Indian-origin Zohran Mamdani within the Democratic major of the New York mayoral election, Republican NYC mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa mentioned Mamdani has no understanding about how the police division works, and that is why he promised to create a brand new Department of Community Safety individually from the police division. This would successfully neuter the police division if cops are compelled to develop into social employees, Sliwa mentioned to the New York Post, which reported apprehension over NYC changing into unsafe if Mamdani turns into the mayor. “He has a weird notion of how policing is, as if it should be people like Mahatma Gandhi walking around, you know, functioning as a social worker. That does not work,” Sliwa said.

Zohran Mamdani’s police reform positions

Mamdani promised major NYPD reform, including redirecting funds from the police department towards housing, healthcare and mental health services. He said the NYPD’s budget was bloated and harmful and community investment was more important over policing. Scott Munro, president of the NYPD Detectives Endowment Association, told NYP the city would be totally unsafe if Mamdani becomes the mayor. “If you put a guy like him in there, our people are going to get hurt, and nobody’s going to want the job. It’s going to put recruitment back five more steps,” Munro mentioned.NYPD insiders said Mamdani clearly hates the NYPD, though he accepted round-the-clock police protection.Sliwa blamed the rise of Mamdani on Eric Adams’ time in office, which was marked by scandals, and said he is not going anywhere, leaving the mayoral battle. “I’m in it till November 4,” he mentioned. “We have to go after the hipster millennials and Gen Zers. It’s the same group that Donald Trump appealed to,” Sliwa said. “There is no Zohran Mamdani if Eric Adams had done a decent job,” Sliwa mentioned. “He created the atmosphere so that somebody that nobody knew that was at one per cent in the polls back in February could suddenly win a Democratic primary against an iconic figure like Andrew Cuomo.”