By: Jon Levine

Hundreds of New York City police officers are ready to leave the force in the wake of Zohran Mamdani’s (D.) election victory, with some openly weeping after the cop-hating socialist seized the city’s mayoralty earlier this month, New York City Police Department officers told the Washington Free Beacon.

“We cried,” one officer—a 20-year veteran of the force—told the Free Beacon. “Some have told me they couldn’t sleep. People can’t f—ing believe it. This is like, one of the worst things that ever happened. This is probably worse than COVID.”

One cop, who said his fellow officers ‘cried’ and ‘couldn’t sleep’ after election night, told the Free Beacon he has ‘not spoken to one person who wants to stay’

The officer, who said he has “not spoken to one person who wants to stay,” told the Free Beacon to expect mass departures before Mamdani takes power.

“The union people, our delegates—they’re coming to us and telling us that it’s going to be a few hundred,” he said.

The cop said both ICE and police departments across the country have reached out to NYPD officers with generous offers. Some departments are even willing to offer compensation to those who would forfeit lucrative New York City pensions by leaving.

“I think I’m gonna leave,” he said. “I am just weighing my options. I love Florida, and Florida sounds better and better every day.”

The officer’s comments come after a campaign in which Mamdani sought to play down his history of radical statements about the NYPD, an organization he called to defund and branded as “racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety.” He also mocked the idea of a police officer crying after the 2020 election—which followed a summer of anti-cop riots—writing, “nature is healing.”

A second NYPD officer told the Free Beacon he and plenty of others plan to get out of the department, with those conversations occurring “on a daily basis.” After years of politicization beginning with the Black Lives Matter movement, he said, Mamdani’s victory was “the last straw.”

“Guys [are] more afraid of the politics than the streets, you know what I mean?” he asked. “And that’s always been my concern. We see something on the news and guys feel more anxious to just leave. I think it’s just the whole idea of making our job harder.”

Mamdani has vowed to replace a police response to certain crimes, including what he terms “mental health” cases, with “crisis responders” under the Department of Community Safety (DCS), which will receive $600 million in “transfers of existing programs.” He has not specified which programs will have their budgets redirected. In addition to those mental health cases, Mamdani has said that “hate crimes” and “gun violence prevention” will fall under the DCS’s purview. Victims of domestic violence and hate crimes spoke out against Mamdani in interviews with the Free Beacon during the campaign, saying those crimes require a police response.

          (freebeacon.com)