Ex-NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly warned it would be a “tragedy of major proportions” if city voters elect socialist mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani, who is “totally unqualified” for the office, according to the New York Post.
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Ex-NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly warned it would be a “tragedy of major proportions” if mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani, who is “totally unqualified” for the office, is elected.
“New York is the capital of capitalism, and to have someone who is so totally unqualified …
this man has basically not had a job,” he told Cats Roundtable host John Catsimatidis. “I’m very concerned about the future of New York if he gets elected.
“He has a whole list of wacky things that he wants to do,” Kelly said. “It’s just not worth the chance, a roll of the dice to have a socialist mayor in this, the greatest city in America.”
Kelly said he is convinced that Mamdani, currently a state assemblyman from Queens, will take resources from the NYPD, particularly mentioning the Democratic Socialist’s plan to create a separate Department of Community Safety to address the mentally ill and homeless people on the streets.
NYC Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani came to the Flatbush Gardens Community Center to talk about affordable housing, food stamps and the latest bill passed by the congress.
“My biggest concern is the Police Department and what he would do to the department. There is no question about it, that he would have to reduce the size of the Police Department,” Kelly said.
“He will reduce the department because he wants to start something bold [a new Department of Community Safety] … with no articulation as to what it means and what he’s going to do. But it does mean he’ll have to take resources from the Police Department to staff that organization,” the former top cop said.
Kelly said the NYPD is already hemorrhaging police officers retiring or exiting “at the highest rate” for “better climes.”
Source: New York Post
