Activists rip Mamdani for boosting NYPD headcount, breaking police crackdown campaign pledge

Source: New York Post

Activists slammed former “defund the police” advocate Mayor Zohran Mamdani Thursday for swelling the ranks of New York’s Finest in an about-face from his campaign pledge to reshape the NYPD. Around 50 elected officials and advocates, including from the local Democratic Socialists of America chapter, gathered around City Hall, calling out the mayor for proposing increasing the police department’s headcount by 580 officers. “The reason I am here is to help the mayor keep the commitment that were made,” Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, a Mamdani ally, said.