New York City just watched the incoming mayor assemble a gargantuan transition apparatus — more than 400 advisors across 17 committees — a right-leaning nightmare wrapped in the language of “affordability” and “expertise.” This is not small-government pragmatism; it’s an ideological power grab with a pipeline straight into City Hall that will steer policy for every neighborhood and every family in the city.
Worse, Mamdani tapped Alex Vitale to the Community Safety committee — the same Brooklyn College professor who wrote The End of Policing and cheered his appointment on social media — a clear signal that radical anti-police thinking will get a front-row seat in shaping public-safety policy. For New Yorkers who have to walk home from subway stations, this is not abstract theory; it’s a practical threat to their safety when the people advising policy believe the problem is policing itself.
On the Criminal Legal System committee, Mamdani appointed Janos Marton, a Dream.Org official and former Manhattan District Attorney candidate who has openly championed dramatic decarceral goals, even arguing for cuts to jail populations that would astonish any law-and-order voter. Marton’s record and writings make clear he favors an aggressive shrinking of the carceral system, and his long history with decarceration campaigns shows this isn’t a moderate tweak — it’s a wholesale rethink of punishment and deterrence.
Patriots across the city should be alarmed but not helpless: these appointments are the roadmap for the types of policies we can expect — policies that prioritize ideology over common-sense enforcement and put social experiments ahead of public safety. Conservatives aren’t anti-reform; we’re pro-safe streets, pro-accountability, and pro-police officers who actually keep people safe rather than being sledgehammers for social policy. Speak up at community meetings, support the brave officers who answer the call, and demand transparency on every recommendation these committees make.
If New York swings hard into experimental defunding and extreme decarceration, the victims will be working-class families and small-business owners who pay taxes and expect basic security in return. This fight is about more than politics — it’s about whether parents can send their kids to playgrounds without fear, whether storeowners can keep their doors open, and whether law-abiding citizens will be protected when criminals cross the line. We must organize, hold elected officials accountable, and insist that public safety comes before radical theory.
Hardworking Americans don’t have to accept the slow decline of their cities. Mobilize locally, back candidates who will restore commonsense policing and prosecutorial standards, and refuse to let ideological zealots remake our justice system while pretending they’re protecting anyone but the criminals. New York can be safer and fairer without surrendering order, and it’s time conservatives make that case louder than the left’s fashionable experiments.
