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New York City’s socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani has carefully plucked away another small but significant element of public order.
According to the New York Post, the mayor’s office issued a directive that the New York Police Department would no longer be responding to calls relating to homeless encampments. Instead, officers will now have to first dispatch social services to deal with such matters before they are allowed to act.
The move is just the latest by the Mamdani administration to peel away public order in the Big Apple in the name of social justice.
The administration had already put up roadblocks to prevent the NYPD from removing homeless encampments, but now it will be further handcuffed.
The New York Post noted that this move represents a radical change and will likely mean that problems at homeless encampments may never be addressed at all.
“This year, the NYPD responded to more than 26,000 of the 36,000 complaints to 311 about encampments,” the Post reported. “Now, [the Department of Homeless Services] will handle triple the calls they previously responded to, with fewer than 2,000 staffers across the entire agency.”
While Mamdani has been careful not to work too directly against the NYPD since he was elected, this is just further demonstration that he’s determined to, over time, entirely undo the kind of policing that made New York dramatically safer under former Mayor Rudy Giuliani. That crime-fighting revolution paid dramatic dividends for decades.
Even though many crimes have dropped to rates below their post-George Floyd riots peak, urban chaos remains a problem and, in some cases, is getting worse.















