NYPD Cops: ‘I Will Quit If Zohran Is Elected’
“Who will even want this job anymore?” a lieutenant asked me. (All photos by Ava Pellor for The Free Press)
Morale is sagging, the number of officers is shrinking, and the candidate who once said ‘defund the NYPD’ now wants to slash their overtime.
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A lieutenant with 19 years on the job remembers hearing nervous laughter when he walked into his New York Police Department command post the morning after Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic mayoral nomination in June.
“Everyone was like, ‘Get ready to retire,’ ” he told me. “It was definitely like the sky was falling.”
The lieutenant said that he always th…
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