If we imagined that Zohran was a Marxist and had control of the police, the thing to do certainly involves mass arrests of landlords. This action is useful regardless because it's not just about the landlords who get criticized (though them having their reputation publicly destroyed is a plus), but about using these stories as the basis for getting support for policies to prevent many common abuses and broadcasting quite loudly how past administrations allowed them to get away with such things and never bothered to ask people to publicly share their experiences like we see here, and how administrations in other cities are continuing to ignore such problems.

that "and" is very important. He'd need to do some serious purging to actually have control of the NYPD

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Absolutely. There's no way he tries and if he did he'd probably be shot, but without that there's not much he could do for using his office directly for radical change.

[–] hellinkilla@hexbear.net 1 points 22 hours ago

I bet they go after a family member first.