Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s campaign promise to destroy the NYPD by eliminating the Strategic Response Group and scrubbing the gang database was back-burnered as he got his sea legs, but recent statements signal that he is still on track to neuter our Finest.
As part of his effort to turn the NYPD into a passive “community safety” agency, Mamdani dispatched a fact-finding team to Columbus, Ohio, (of all places) to learn how the police there manage crowds at protests.
You might think that New York, which has thousands of protests — both planned and spontaneous — every year, involving sometimes hundreds of thousands of people, would have adequate experience with crowd control…