New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is struggling to fund his agenda and is now even considering funding it by defunding the police. It seems Democrats still have not learned their painful lesson on this.
The astounding part is that as he eyes cuts to the NYPD, he is trying to fund a DEI bureaucracy.
FOX News reports:
Mamdani plan pours millions into ‘racial equity’ offices and six-figure diversity jobs, cuts 5,000 NYPD jobsEven as City Hall describes parts of its spending plan as “actions of last resort,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani is steering millions into an expanding “racial equity” bureaucracy and six-figure diversity positions.To finance the $127 billion agenda, the plan carries steep trade-offs — higher taxes on wealthy residents and corporations, a potential 9.5% property tax increase if state lawmakers decline to act and a 5,000-officer reduction in the New York City Police Department’s ranks.Mamdani’s budget is far from inconsequential. In a city of nearly 9 million people that represents the center of global finance, his sweeping progressive agenda isn’t just a local policy shift. It’s a high-stakes experiment that could reshape the nation’s largest economy.Under Mamdani’s plan, the city’s Office of Racial Equity would receive $5.6 million annually, while the Commission on Racial Equity would be allocated $4.6 million, a combined total of $10.2 million. The new figure represents roughly a $3 million increase — or about a 42% jump — from the approximately $7.2 million allocated last year.Together, the allocations support a growing racial equity apparatus within City Hall. The Office of Racial Equity, which employs a staff of 38, serves as the administration’s operational arm, coordinating and implementing racial equity policies across agencies.The Commission on Racial Equity, made up of 16 paid roles, functions as a separate advisory and analytical body, conducting research, developing recommendations and providing oversight related to racial equity policy.
See the clip below:
Mamdani thinks he can make up the difference with civilians. It sounds completely insane.
From CBS News:
CBS News New York’s Marcia Kramer put the question to Mamdani.”What are you going to do to try to convince people that they want to work in New York City as a police officer?” she asked.He fell back on his campaign agenda of establishing a Department of Community Safety to relieve police workloads by having civilians respond to things like homelessness and domestic violence cases.”I’ve said time and again that for too long the city has added additional responsibilities onto the NYPD. We see at this point the NYPD responsible for responding to about 200,000 mental health calls a year,” Mamdani said.
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