Zohran's Mamdani's Crime Carnival Arrives

Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance

To some degree, New York has always walked the edge of chaos. Hell, from TV and movies, we know it’s even part of the city’s charm.

But incoming mayor Zohran Mamdani’s crime plan for the city at this point seems nothing more than a pre-meditated path for turning New York into a bona fide hellscape, while Mamdani smiles and pats himself on the back for his “progressive” thinking.

First, it was socialism via government run food stores. Now, Mamdani’s latest proposal is to eliminate misdemeanor crimes altogether — a policy that would invite petty crime, drive down property values, and replicate the disastrous effects seen in places like San Francisco.

That’s right. Now, shoplifting, drug use, DWI, harassment, prostitution, even a good old-fashioned sidewalk sucker punch—are all rebranded as “non-serious.”

This isn’t some fever dream. It’s straight from his platform, where he and his socialist pals sneer at policing as “class war” and demand we end what they call the “criminalization of survival.”

Funny thing to say from a guy who makes $142,000 a year as a state assemblyman and “whose wealthy family includes his filmmaker mom and professor dad,” according to the NY Post, right?

New Yorkers with more than 4 brain cells to rub together call it something else: living in a city where thieves, addicts, and drunks get a free ride while the rest of us foot the bill. One Chelsea resident told The Post:

“It’s just difficult to imagine how adults in their right mind could come up with it. I’m not exaggerating, I’m completely serious,. We’re already suffering from terrible crime. This is going to make it a thousand times worse. And perception matters – just the notion of this would embolden criminals.”

Again, we’ve seen this movie before. It’s called San Francisco. Shoplifting decriminalized under $950. Looting turned into a way of life. Companies shutting down stores and...(READ THIS FULL COLUMN, 100% FREE, HERE).