Now is Not the Time to “Moderate” on the Police

Prominent mayoral candidates are distancing themselves from “defund” and instead offering “cops and more” public safety plans. But that approach neglects the victims of police brutality and risks further entrenching police legitimacy and power.
— Read on www.currentaffairs.org/news/now-is-not-the-time-to-moderate-on-the-police

Zohran Mamdani wants to strip power from NYPD commissioner — revoking final say on officer discipline

The proud DSA member told reporters Tuesday that he wants an emboldened and effective Civilian Complaint Review Board that out-ranks the city’s top cop when it comes to serious disiciplinary matters.
— Read on nypost.com/2025/10/01/us-news/zohran-mamdani-wants-to-strip-power-from-nypd-commissioner-revoking-final-say-on-officer-discipline/

See the report on the death of Allan Feliz by the NY AG office HERE

Defund the Police in Real Time: Collapse of Law Enforcement … Adams & Woods … Shows the Cost of No Control – SubX.News

(Chicago SubXNews) Scanner traffic out of the Near West Side last night was raw, profane, and telling. A TMA — a traffic management aide, not a sworn
— Read on subx.news/defund-the-police-in-real-time-collapse-of-law-enforcement-adams-woods-shows-the-cost-of-no-control/

The Fantasy of a World Without Police

Readers shouldn’t take Hudson’s presentation of these incidents as the warts-and-all truth, however. For example, in decrying cops’ use of riot-control tactics against Standing Rock protesters, who opposed a section of the Dakota Access Pipeline near a Native American reservation, she neglects to mention that the massive, lengthy protests involved road blockades and torched vehicles. In recounting how the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, launched a protest movement, she recalls that “hands up, don’t shoot!” became a “rallying cry” without admitting that the precipitating incident never happened.
— Read on www.city-journal.org/article/defund-the-police-black-lives-matter-sandy-hudson-book

Policing Without the Police? A Review of the Evidence | Manhattan Institute

In the wake of the death of George Floyd and the summer of protests and riots that followed, police reform has once again caught the nation’s attention. But whereas past cycles of this debate have focused on changes to the police as an institution—antibias trainings, new use-of-force…
— Read on www.manhattan-institute.org/policing-without-police-review-evidence

Is Defunding the Police a “Luxury Belief”? | Manhattan Institute

Amid the “racial reckoning” and months of protests that followed the May 2020 killing of George Floyd, progressive political activists, politicians, and media pundits increasingly called for “defunding”—or even “abolishing”—the police. What was meant by proponents of these…
— Read on www.manhattan-institute.org/is-defunding-the-police-a-luxury-belief