Just like the old gypsy woman said, New York City voted for the commie jihadist. This is great for national Republicans crafting attack ads for next year’s election, but bad for ordinary New York citizens who don’t want their city to turn into a festering hellhole.
Festering hellhole is one of the polar defaults for post-war NYC. Back under liberal Republican mayor John Lindsay (yes, there used to be such things as “liberal Republicans”), NYC had earned the title as “the ungovernable city.” High crime, endemic corruption, shaky finances, failing infrastructure and poor sanitation made New York in the 1960s-70s so unpleasant that it became a movie cliche all its own (see The Out of Towners or The Warriors).
But a funny thing happened on the road to perdition: A couple of strong mayors (first Ed Koch, then Rudy Giuliani) managed to pull the city back from the brink by concentrating on lowering the city’s spiraling crime rates. Giuliani’s “broken windows” policing in particular made New York livable again, by prosecuting petty criminals before they could impact the quality of life by graduating to bigger crimes, pretty much the opposite of the soft-on-crime “put repeat offenders back on the streets” policies pursued by Soros-backed DAs like Alvin Bragg.
One of the few reasons New York City has held together as well as it has through previous leftwing incompetent mayors like David Dinkins and Bill de Blasio is the presence of some 33,000 New York police officers. The NYPD had its own sleaze and corruption problems in The Bad Old Times, as exemplified in movies like Serpico or Prince of the City that only started getting cleaned up after the Knapp Commission. Under Giuliani, the NYPD regained its reputation as one of the better run police departments in the country.
Now that police-hostile Mamdani has been elected, just what are honest NYPD cops supposed to do? The Houston Police Department has a suggestion: Come on down!
Soon after Zohran Mamdani won the mayoral election on Tuesday night, the Houston Police Officers’ Union began encouraging New York City police officers to move to the Lone Star State.
Following the projection of Mamdani’s win, the union began highlighting work for the Houston Police Department through a series of social media posts.
“NYPD, are you disgusted with the election of Zohran Mamdani? Join us! The Houston Police Department is hiring police officers!” one post read. “Texas’ largest police union invites you to consider joining the Houston Police Department!”
Zohran Mamdani, who calls himself a democrat socialist, has previously attacked the NYPD as “racist,” “wicked,” and “corrupt.” He has also called for defunding the NYPD.
Fox News called the race for Mamdani just minutes after the polls closed Tuesday evening.
Job perks highlighted by the Houston union include competitive pay, a police chief who is a retired Texas Ranger rather than “a politician,” affordable housing, and a state government that supports law enforcement.
I sincerely doubt Houston is the only city trying to poach NYPD officers in the wake of Mamdani’s election.
The Jewish head of the FDNY commission resigned after the election results. The Police Benevolent Association, the union that represents most NYPD cops, has had disputes with pretty much every NYC mayor back into the dim mists of time, but before Mamdani, they’ve never had a mayor who was actively hostile to the NYPD and on the side of criminals. New York’s Taylor Act prevents police from striking, but what if they simply…left? Or, in an act of “Irish Democracy,” simply refuse Mamdani orders they don’t like?
It’s possible that NYC under Mamdani will descend into ungovernable chaos that will put Lindsay’s feckless reign in the shade…
Tags: Alvin Bragg, Bill De Blasio, broken window policing, Crime, David Dinkins, Democrats, Ed Koch, Houston, Houston Police Department, John Lindsay, New York, New York City, NYPD, Police Benevolent Association, Rudy Giuliani, unions, Zohran Mamdani
I was a fed in Houston, and many of the people I worked with were northeasterners, and especially New Yorkers who couldn’t get hired because of their skin color, and who found police jobs with HPD.
100% correct except Lindsay, not Lindsey. [Corrected. – LP]
As a teenager growing up in the Bronx, I was a volunteer in both of his campaigns. It turned out to be a quite lucrative move, as many of the kids involved (including me) got summer and part-time patronage jobs with the city while we were still in school.
In retrospect, there’s no doubt that his administration was a disaster, but I do have a soft spot in my heart for him as he lived his last years in relative deprivation. He came from Upper East Side WASP breeding, but not WASP money, and in retirement he and his wife Mary lived in a one-bedroom condo in Hilton Head Island, SC. He was mayor for eight years, which at the time wasn’t long enough to qualify for a city pension and medical benefits, so Rudy Giuliani appointed him to some ceremonial job that would give him enough service time credit to meet the pension requirements. He died in 2001.
As for NYC now, stick a fork in it, it’s done. I left when I was 22 and never lived there or looked back again.
I am coming to the conclusion that any person who continues to live in NY-effin’-C is either mentally ill or evil.
I have already concluded that any police officer continuing to serve there is batshit crazy, or else so corrupt that no other department would want them anyway.