Comment on As of 30 minutes ago at the time of posting, the NYPD has detained two young Black men after they refused to show ID without explanation or cause.

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• destructdisc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Considering a lot of the NYPD straight up said they’d resign if he became mayor, I think he’s got a pretty good chance of bringing change if he really wants to

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  • resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Oh no how unfortunate.

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    • DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Wow, they are just giving him free advertising at this point.

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  • punkisundead@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    They are lying to influence the election

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    • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      No… Would people do that? Lie to further their agenda?

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    • brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      They are lying threatening to influence the election

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      • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Hey whats the word for that?

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    • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Police? LYING?!

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    • Sidhean@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Hey. If pigs are gonna throw their weight in behind a good cause, I say we take it! You can’t expect them to reform on their first day as socialists (/j I get what you’re saying)

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  • VitoRobles@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    They said the same thing in my city.

    And surprise surprise, violent crime actually went down.

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  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Give it to NYPD for threatening us all with a good time.

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  • Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Ny is just full on police state. They need every single cop swapped

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  • crusa187@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That’s one way to dispose of all those bad apples

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• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The department is administered and governed by the police commissioner, who is appointed by the mayor to what is, nominally, a five year term.

  Can Zohran fire the existing commissioner and replace him? Idk what the bureaucracy around that looks like. Entrenched power structures have a way of slow rolling executives thru don’t like and ignoring rules they don’t want to follow.

  A lot of levers of power that worked for a Guliani or an Adams might suddenly stop working assuming Zohran can make it all the way through the general and into office.

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• burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  as far as i am aware, the mayor is the commander in chief of local police and also determines their budget

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  • SabinStargem@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    If I was mayor of NYC, I would eliminate the budget to all existing departments, then create new departments with a fresh budget. The initial budget is for importing officers and administrators from Europe, sourced from nations that put them through a rigorous training academy that emphasizes deescalation and following laws. No existing personnel from the ranks of America’s police would ever be hired.

    Far as I am concerned, the police in America are a mafia, not keepers of peace. They have to be rooted out completely, if that is to change.

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    • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      They own the law though, so no lawful process can oppose them meaningfully.

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• punkisundead@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The potential is there, but usually winning one election is not enough to actually achieve structural change such as stopping racist police actions.

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