New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is putting together a team, and one of the people on that team is Alex Vitale, a professor of sociology at Brooklyn College and the author of a provocative book called: “The End of Policing.”
That’s right: The new mayor has picked one of the leading intellectuals behind the Abolish the Police movement to work on community safety issues.
That’s very interesting, of course, given that I was assured by my liberal friends that Mamdani isn’t actually serious about abolishing or defunding the police, and that when he tweeted over and over again that he wanted to do just that, he was — what, joking? Lying? Pay no attention to what the mayor of New York said five years ago, it’s ancient history! Surely, when Mamdani said “Queer liberation means defund the police” he didn’t mean “defund the police,” right?…