Excellent 🧵 but: DeBlasio tried to reign in the NYPD, and for his trouble his family was stalked/harassed, and he backed off. I don’t know enough about NYC politics to say that the cops are impossible to control (seems like Bass had the same problem in LA), but I don know how much a mayor can do (1)
🧵 I wrote a thread about this when he was elected that I can't find, but the gist of it was: Mamdani WILL disappoint you. He can't not. I'm glad a socdem got elected and he seems like a nice dude, but he's a propaganda machine. The amount of people that just think they're job is done now that he's >
Ed "Abolish ICE” Costanza
Tyler, from the Internet
Yeah, I mean, he made three specific campaign promises about the NYPD and he’s walked them all back. They weren’t particularly ambitious promises either
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