Radical socialist NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has made his disdain for police well-known. He has underscored that position with the appointment of Professor Alex Vitale to his transition team.
Vitale, who has pushed for ending policing and calling police ‘violence workers,’ is being tapped to shape ‘community safety issues.
Vitale announced on X, “I’m excited to announce that I have been asked to join the Mamdani Transition Team to work on community safety issues. A New Era for NYC.”
In 2017, Vitale authored “The End of Policing,” where he asserts that police don’t exist to help citizens and argues for an end to traditional policing for certain criminal activity. According to Vitale, police should not address narcotics use, prostitution, patrolling borders, and “misbehaving adolescents.”