After NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch agreed to work in his administration, the mayor-elect has gotten cagey on disbanding the SRG, scrapping the gang database, and giving the CCRB the final say in police discipline.
I never had any expectations that Mamdani was going to make any real change, not on his own at least. If there’s any real change it’ll be slow at best because he’s part of the Democrat Party now, and being closely watched by them. The real benefits of his election are:
Elite Panic
Messaging (Socialists are here and more popular than you thought)
Cuomo’s humiliation
Other Socialists know we can win, so more may declare openly
I never had any expectations that Mamdani was going to make any real change, not on his own at least. If there’s any real change it’ll be slow at best because he’s part of the Democrat Party now, and being closely watched by them. The real benefits of his election are: