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Mamdani to announce ‘rebrand’ of NYPD protest response unit after lefty attacks: sources
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Hizzoner is slated to say he’s “decoupled” the 500-strong police unit’s duties of responding to demonstrations from its counterterrorism tasks, insiders briefed on the plans told The Post.
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Members of the NYPD Strategic Response Group or SRG, showed their capabilities at Randalls Island this afternoon with Commissioner William Bratton watching the demonstration on December 16, 2015. (Photo by Todd Maisel/NY Daily News via Getty Images)
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is reportedly set to unveil his plan to disband an elite NYPD police unit, fulfilling a campaign promise to his cop-hating […]
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is expected to announce soon that he will disband the Strategic Response Group within the New York City Police Department. The unit has two […]
Mamdani plans to break up the NYPD's Strategic Response Group, which handles civil unrest, major public events, and counterterrorism, raising immediate concerns about who will actually maintain order when riots involving far-left activists break out.
New York City's democratic socialist mayor is reportedly going to reveal his plan to disband a counterterrorism group within the New York City Police Department (NYPD).
"In dissolving the counterterrorism and protest-response unit, the democratic socialist mayor would fulfill a key 2025 campaign pledge with the aim of mollifying an increasingly restive base." The post Mamdani Preparing to Disband NYPD Unit Handling Protests, Terrorism first appeared on Le·gal In·su…
Hizzoner is slated to say he’s “decoupled” the 500-strong police unit’s duties of responding to demonstrations from its counterterrorism tasks, insiders briefed on the plans told The Post.
Mamdani will pitch his Strategic Response Group changes as a major overhaul, but insiders say the unit will keep operating under another name while retaining its response duties for active shooters, mass casualty incidents and terrorism threats.
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