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Mamdani’s Plan to Strip the NYPD’s Boss of Disciplinary Power Would Threaten Public Safety

Between the random subway murders, road-blocking protests and the still-fresh memories of the 2020, ’21 and ’22 crime spikes, many of us are paying close attention to the public-safety proposals in the race for New York City mayor.

So far, there’s little for those of us concerned with controlling crime and disorder to be excited about. But more than a few ideas are downright terrifying.

One is a proposal by Zohran Mamdani to shift final say on matters of police officer discipline away from the NYPD’s commissioner and give it to the notoriously anti-cop Civilian Complaint Review Board.

Currently, once the CCRB substantiates a complaint against a member of the NYPD, it makes a recommendation for sanctioning the alleged misconduct.

Continue reading the entire piece here at the New York Post

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Rafael Mangual is the Nick Ohnell Fellow and head of research for the Policing and Public Safety Initiative at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. He is also the author of Criminal (In)Justice: What the Push for Decarceration and Depolicing Gets Wrong and Who It Hurts Most.  William J. Bratton twice served as NYPD commissioner. 

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