With New York City hurtling toward the probability of electing anti-police demagogue and all-around socialist (read: Marxist) Zohran Mamdani as its first Muslim mayor, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) has issued an impassioned plea directly to NYPD officers: “Do you really want to risk your life for a city led by someone who despises you?”
Heavy question — backed by multiple ominous questions about what kind of mayor Mamdani would become, particularly with respect to law enforcement in the Big Apple.
While Mamdani now tries to dance around the question about how he really feels about law enforcement, his own words in 2020 made his disdain abundantly clear, as he posted online about his firm anti-police stance.
"No, we want to defund the police," he wrote in June 2020. Later that year, he added, "Queer liberation means defund the police," and accused the NYPD of being "racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety." He further condemned budget compromises, writing, "NO to fake cuts, defund the police."
In December 2020, his rhetoric intensified: "There is no negotiating with an institution this wicked and corrupt. Defund it. Dismantle it. End the cycle of violence."
Typical irrational rationalization.
Rather than push for the judicial systems in Democrat-controlled cities to end their revolving-door approach to career criminals, Mamdani — along with other police-loathing leftists — instead believes law enforcement is the problem, not those who break the law.
Then again, do the leftists like Mamdani really believe law enforcement is the issue, or are they more concerned with pandering to the criminal underbelly of society — with an eye on the ballot box?
Enter, Governor DeSantis
During a Tuesday appearance on Fox News, DeSantis told host Martha MacCallum (emphasis, mine):
We'll see what happens in the election, but if he [Mamdani] is elected, I think it will be an example of the voters of New York City committing an act of ballistic podiatry because it is going to come back and bite the city. He is so far left, and he mixes his leftism with Islamism. He's gonna make the [former NYC Mayor Bill] de Blasio years look like the golden days.
And I can tell you in Florida — we're affected by this. Just with the law enforcement alone, if you're working in NYPD, do you want to go out there and risk your life, knowing that the mayor hates you? No — a lot of them are not going to want to do that, and in Florida we've established a five-thousand-dollar recruitment bonus, so if you are somebody who doesn't want to serve under that guy as mayor, you come to Florida — any state or local law enforcement agency — you get five thousand dollars right at the top.
I'm not sure which I love more: DeSantis trolling the daylight out of Mamdani and his supporters, or the offered bonus itself. Either way, good job, governor.
Today, I joined Martha MacCallum on Fox News. pic.twitter.com/shacUmwYDl
— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) October 28, 2025
DeSantis continued:
I will tell you: If you say you’re going to disband the NYPD, if you put the criminals back on the street, if you engage in far-Left policies that would make George Soros blush, people do respond to that. And of all the people that have migrated to Florida since I’ve been governor, I would say the number one reason they’ve left places — like New York City under De Blasio, like they’ve left Chicago under this mayor and the previous mayor, like leaving San Francisco and Los Angeles — is public safety. Those leftist politicians turn their backs on the police, turn their backs on the rule of law, and then the citizens were the ones that paid the price.
Bingo. Yet, the insanity continues.
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The Bottom Line
If (when) Zohran Mamdani becomes New York City's next mayor, a large portion of the city's electorate will have intentionally taught themselves a very hard lesson.
Then again, I hear the weather in Florida is nice, this time of year — and all year, if you happen to be a New York City police officer who doesn't want to risk your life for a mayor who loathes your very existence.
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