New York's first out: The cops

 Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is expected to drive a lot of people out of New York City.

Already, there are reports that some are fleeing.

First out are the cops:

While I can't confirm those reports, it's likely many are heading out, given that other police departments are looking to hire them.

Such as Houston:

HOUSTON, Texas — In the wake of New York City’s historic mayoral election, the Houston Police Officers’ Union is openly inviting NYPD officers to consider relocating to Texas, citing concerns about the newly elected mayor’s stance on policing, KHOU reported.

In a social media post published shortly after Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York City, the union asked,

“NYPD, are you disgusted with the election of Zohran Mamdani? Join us!”

The post promotes the Houston Police Department as a law enforcement-friendly alternative, highlighting a recently approved 36.5% pay raise over five years, affordable housing and insurance, and a Deferred Retirement Option Plan available to all officers, according to the report.

Why wouldn't they? Mamdani has promoted defunding the police many times, even as he claims now that he never has.

Does that sound like he has the police's back? This is just money, of course. The real question is whether he has the police's back when some activist controversy erupt. No matter how innocent the cop may be, the cop will always be guilty in Mamdani's statements. That doesn't sound like the kind of work conditions anyone would like, even if the cops retire at their desks and wait to collect their pensions. They'll find something to blame the cops on, and the cops will always be guilty with Mamdani in the saddle.

People act on expections, including cops. And right now, this immediate flight is a vote of no-confidence in Mamdani's mayorality. 

And the reasons go deeper than mere police pay, as promoted by the Houston recruiters.

Here are a few more: 

Here's Mamdani's typical behavior around the cops:

Mamdani might be able to keep some of the cops -- at massive salary hikes, which won't please his political base. That happened in Minneapolis and likely other cities where police flight was incentivized.

More likely, he and his city will largely be going without cops, and they may be replaced by Chavista-style street goons in some kind of relationship with Mamdani's operatives, enforcing their own laws against dissidents, crime allowed to run rampant. That's what happened in Venezuela, it may very well happen in New York.

Mamdani's threats to arrest ICE agents are comical in this context, given that he won't have much of a police force to arrest them with.

But it's disturbing to see that New York, with its proud police heritage, is looking set to dissolve first with Mamdani's radical administration. A city without police is a maelstrom. And that looks like the ugly road Mamdani is already taking New York down, even if he improbably pleads with the police to stay.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/11/new_york_s_first_out_the_cops.html

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