As reported at The NY Post, Zohran Mamdani’s comrades at the Democratic Socialists of America openly call to end what they call “the criminalization of working-class survival,” and want to wipe out all misdemeanor offenses. Or as they refer to the crimes as so-called “non-violent offenses.” What could possibly go wrong?
Democratic mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani and his comrades at the Democratic Socialists of America want to wipe out the enforcement of all misdemeanor offenses.
In its most recent platform, the group blasts policing and detention as “instruments of class war” designed to “guarantee the domination of the working class” — and demands an end what it calls “the criminalization of working-class survival.”
Mamdani, a Queens assemblyman and member of the NYC chapter of the DSA and its endorsed mayoral candidate, has questioned the purpose of prisons and repeatedly called to roll back punishment on so-called “non-violent offenses” – both as an Albany lawmaker and in his Gotham mayoral campaign.