At least three times a week — and sometimes more — a big story will come out of New York about an awful crime that was committed against an innocent by a criminal who, too often, shouldn't have been walking the streets anyway due to a rap sheet as long as a CVS receipt.
Even just scrolling down the front page of RedState, you can see this story published on Monday that reported that someone stabbed someone else on the New York subway because a person asked them not to talk on their cell phone so loudly.
Read: Meanwhile, NYC Subway Rider Stabbed After Asking Attacker to Stop Talking Loudly on Cellphone
Charming city.
And it's about to get even better, because incoming New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani just added a man named Alex Vitale to his transition team.
Who is Alex Vitale? He's the guy who says that if you "don't want racism and violence, don't get the police involved."
🚨 New Mamdani Transition Team Member Says Cops Are “Violence Workers” and NYPD–Israel Training Trips “Pervert American Politics”
— Stu Smith (@thestustustudio) November 24, 2025
Alex Vitale — author of The End of Policing, sociology professor at Brooklyn College, CUNY Graduate Center, and now officially part of Zohran… pic.twitter.com/n6REJNfbjH
Alex Vitale — author of The End of Policing, sociology professor at Brooklyn College, CUNY Graduate Center, and now officially part of Zohran Mamdani’s transition team on “community safety” — gave this talk eleven days before George Floyd, when “defund” hadn’t even gone mainstream. He was already a true believer.
He also said that "police are a direct interference" with "radical socialist oriented politics" that will be "used to stop us."
🚨 Mamdani Transition Pick: “Police Are a Direct Interference” With “Radical Socialist Oriented Politics”… and “They Will Be Used to Stop Us”
— Stu Smith (@thestustustudio) November 25, 2025
Professor Alex Vitale, now on Mamdani’s transition team, says the quiet part out loud, admitting that abolishing the police “creates… pic.twitter.com/3wFicpmxIU
Professor Alex Vitale, now on Mamdani’s transition team, says the quiet part out loud, admitting that abolishing the police “creates political space for us to do what we need to do.”
Recently, Mamdani said during his debate with Andrew Cuomo that he has no intention to defund the police, but it's kind of hard to take that kind of talk seriously when he's putting someone on his transition team who is openly hostile to the mere concept of policing.
If you need more proof that he wasn't just rattling off anti-police rhetoric to his socialist friends, keep in mind that Vitale is the author of the book "The End of Policing," in which he advocates for dramatically reducing the budgets and duties of police departments and putting that money into more socialistic ventures like social workers.
I think it's safe to say that Mamdani wasn't at all serious about not wanting to defund the police. He just brought in one of the biggest "defund the police" guys there is.
This is going to spell doom for the NYPD, and that's before Mamdani and Vitale can actually get their hands on it. As I reported in June, officers of the NYPD were already preparing for a mass exodus if Mamdani won:
“The city would be totally unsafe for people who live here,” predicted Scott Munro, president of the NYPD Detectives’ Endowment Association.
“I go to bed and worry about the phone ringing. I’m worried about my members getting killed. I don’t want to plan any funerals,” he added.
“If you put a guy like him in there, our people are going to get hurt, and nobody’s going to want the job. It’s going to put recruitment back five more steps,” Munro said.
NYPD brass are quietly bracing for a potential mass exodus unless Mayor Adams, a Democrat and retired NYPD captain seeking re-election as an independent, or GOP mayoral nominee Curtis Sliwa, pull off an upset. [As we know, that did not happen.]
“I’ve had guys call me and say ‘If he wins, I’m quitting,’” a police source said of Mamdani. “It’s just weird that New York City would vote for him. I know he’s not here for the police.”
Read: New York Is Going to Have Some Major Crime Problems If Mamdani Wins the Mayor's Race
Munro is correct. The NYPD was already bleeding officers before Mamdani won the election, but I'm not entirely sure how the NYPD will stay near battle-ready now. Officers will likely cut and run to other departments outside the city, or possibly even move to different states, and rightly so. It's highly unlikely that Mamdani's regime will have officers' backs, and no one wants to be the next Derek Chauvin.
New Yorkers better brace for impact. Or better yet, leave.
Editor’s Note: Zohran Mamdani is an avowed Democratic Socialist and has a real chance to become the next mayor of New York City.
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