Mamdani_s policies in the era of Donald Trump_ will the policies collide

Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Law Enforcement, Crime, True Crime, Military

4.4 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

A political storm is brewing in New York City, but forget about the usual city hall drama. This is a hypothetical showdown with the power to redefine America's largest city and send shockwaves across the country. It's a battle between two wildly different views of the world. On one side, you have a figure like Donald Trump, who has a track record of using federal power to push his "America First" agenda. On the other, you have the potential for a deeply progressive, democratic socialist mayor in New York, whose platform is embodied by a figure like Zohran Mamdani.

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0:00.0	Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to Police Off the Cuff.
0:07.0	Real Crime Stories.
0:07.9	I'm your host, retired NYPD Sergeant Bill Cannon, a 27-year veteran of the NYPD.
0:14.9	You know, since Zoran Mamdami has been elected, many people in and outside of New York City have lots of questions.
0:25.3	Most of the questions pertain to the policy decisions that Zoran Mamdami will be pursuing,
0:34.7	both in an economic sense, a social sense, and most importantly, as far as the
0:41.7	residents of New York City are concerned, is the application of the protection of the citizens
0:49.7	by the NYPD. What type of policies is Zoran Mamdami going to pursue and what will those ramifications be
1:00.5	on the health and the safety of New Yorkers? New Yorkers, at least long-term New Yorkers, have seen
1:08.5	the best and the worst of crime fighting.
1:13.5	Going back to the 70s and the early 80s, crime was really out of control within New York City.
1:22.0	And many mayors cut out of the same thread, the progressive thread, didn't really understand crime fighting and criminal justice and what was necessary to protect the citizenry of New York City because crime fighting isn't just about policing and locking people up and prosecuting people and putting them in jail and ultimately
1:46.7	prison if they committed a crime that was like a felony that was very serious.
1:53.7	But how about policy in regards to emotionally disturbed persons who are walking around the streets of New York City and are still
2:02.4	walking around the streets of New York City and endangering many people, mentally ill people
2:08.7	living on the subways, taking up space, unhygienic subway cars because of homeless people that live on them, sleep on them, walk through them.
2:23.3	In many cases, I don't want to draw a picture of some of the other things they were doing.
2:28.9	And at the same time that Mamdami has been elected mayor, a progressive mayor of New York City.
2:35.5	And let's look at the history.
2:40.8	After Mayor Giuliani served eight terms and through his crime fighting policies, crime in New York
2:50.7	City dropped to the lowest levels nationally
2:55.1	when they instituted what we spoke about on previous shows as the Comstead program.
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