Public safety may be the one issue that could destroy Zohran Mamdani’s hopes in the New York City mayoral race — which is why the once-proud Democratic Socialist has spent the last few weeks distancing himself from his own party’s radical platform.
Mamdani, a two-term state Assemblyman, won his seat in 2020 as part of a far-left contingent of socialist anti-police agitators whose radicalism knew no bounds.
“Defund the police” and “abolish jails” were far from empty slogans to Mamdani and his comrades, but core elements of their political identity.
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Rafael Mangual is the Nick Ohnell Fellow and head of research for the Policing and Public Safety Initiative at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. He is also the author of Criminal (In)Justice: What the Push for Decarceration and Depolicing Gets Wrong and Who It Hurts Most.
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