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Why didn't he cut any of NYPD's draining (and harmful) budget. Wtf?
Police have a lot of leverage power.
Almost all police are part of some form of union, and they have the ability to say "fuck you, we're not going to respond to emergency calls if you don't give us what we want"
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aaaaaaand they'll use that tactic to force cities not to implement alternatives to police, like qualified, unarmed, de-escalation trained mental health experts that handle certain situations better than cops, so police retain a total monopoly over state violence and decisions about if someone should be arrested or not... which then lets them keep their bargaining power to do it all over again.
Wasn't Mamdani saying the whole campaign that he promised to keep the NYPD budget in return for the NYPD refocusing on violent crime and the NYPD leadership staying? If he pissed off the entire NYPD things would probably be more expensive.
It doesn't matter what he said, he's kind of at the mercy of (shitty) police unions.
Just look at how they responded when de Blasio dared to level even the most tepid criticism.
Cops in my city just stopped working after 2020.
Yeah, increasingly I've noticed cops just not giving a fuck about the law and doing whatever they want
Cut their funding in half and see how much power they have.
They are superfluous. That's kinda the point. We don't need them to respond to calls. Give half their funding to other people without guns to respond to calls.
Exactly, the last time the NYPD went on strike, crime went down lmao
Crime didn't go up last strike
I'm taking about 2015.