By The New York Post Editorial Board
Zohran Mamdani just offered fresh proof of his deep anti-cop bigotry with his call to shift key powers to discipline officers to the Civilian Complaint Review Board.
It’s a terrible fix for a problem that doesn’t exist — and one that would lead to worse policing, and so more crime; it would likely even produce a force with far more bad cops.
“What I would do is ensure that the recommendations of the CCRB be understood to be the final voice of the question of accountability,” Mamdani says — without pointing to any actual bad results of the current law, which gives final say to the police commissioner.
Anti-blue prejudice is hard-wired into the board. Nearly half its members are chosen by the bitterly anti-policing City Council and cop-hating Public Advocate Jumaane Williams; the staff leans heavily left, too.
And the CCRB incorporates anonymous tips into its files on individual officers — an open invitation for gangs and other criminal organizations to smear cops who are actually too good at their job.
Mamdani has tried to weasel away from his repeated smears of the NYPD as “racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety,” but has yet to make any public apology for those lies, and this proposal shows he still believes them.
Yet, by every objective metric, the NYPD is the most professional urban police force in the nation, and maybe the world.
Even the CCRB’s stats are telling: Its files on all 34,000 active-duty cops since the start of their careersshow a total of just 33,000 complaints, though the force has over a million interactions with the public every year and there’s virtually no downside to filing a complaint — only 2% of which are ever substantiated.
In other words, Mamdani can’t produce one iota of evidence that the NYPD has any problem with overly aggressive or racist cops, and a majority of the force is black or Hispanic.
So he has no grounds for putting the CCRB in charge of discipline.
Cops “have zero chance of receiving a fair hearing from the anti-police activists who dominate CCRB’s board,” warns Patrick Hendry, head of the Police Benevolent Association. That may be an exaggeration, but it surely indicates how his members feel.
In short, Mamdani’s “reform” would be yet another reason for every officer to leave the NYPD, whether via retiring as soon as possible or finding a cop job somewhere else.
The NYPD headcount would plunge.
In combination with the socialist’s other plans, it absolutely adds up to a scheme to defund the NYPD, albeit indirectly.
The cops who did remain would avoid interacting with the public, even to stop a crime, since doing so might draw a complaint — and crime rates would skyrocket.
Even if the city woke up, reversed course and went on a hiring spree, it’d have a rookie-heavy force more likely to make mistakes.
Then again, Mamdani wouldn’t even have to empower the CCRB: He could just tap a cop-hater (radical City Councilwoman Tiffany Caban?) as commish to rubber-stamp every CCRB recommendation.
Which means if New Yorkers want an effective police force to control crime, their only hope is to keep Zohran Mamdani far away from City Hall.
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— NY Post Opinion (@NYPostOpinion) October 1, 2025
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