US EditionZohran Mamdani Appoints Prominent Police Abolitionist to His Transition Team
Alex Vitale, a sociology professor and critic of policing, joins Zohran Mamdani's community safety committee to push for reallocating police funds and reforming policing.
- On November 5, 2025, New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani added Alex Vitale to his community safety committee, with Vitale calling for `abolition` of cops.
- Vitale has long argued policing should be a tool of last resort and described police as `violence workers`, saying the problem lies in policing itself, not training or diversity, Alex Vitale wrote in The End of Policing.
- The transition team includes Elena Leopold, transition team executive director, who signed a 2020 open letter calling to cut NYPD funding by $1 billion, and Vitale is one of multiple anti‑cop members.
- Last week, Mamdani committed to maintaining the NYPD headcount at 35,000 officers during a meeting with President Donald Trump and has said `I will not defund the police`.
- By advocating fund shifts, Vitale positions himself to influence NYPD funding debates through his call to move funds from cops to social workers versus policing.
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‘Natural Enemy’: Mamdani Names Radical Cop-Hating Professor To ‘Community Safety’ Post
By Melissa O'Rourke, Daily Caller News Foundation | November 25, 2025 New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has appointed a university professor who has described police officers as “violence workers” to serve on his community safety committee. Mamdani announced Monday that Alex Vitale, a sociology professor at Brooklyn College, will advise his incoming administration on community safety matters. Vitale has a long history of disparaging police, ca…
Zohran Mamdani Shows His True Colors
Zohran Mamdani , New York’s soon-to-be mayor, put Alex Vitale, a sociology professor at Brooklyn College, on his transition team. He’s hiring a lot of crazies. In case you don’t know who he is, he is the author of The End of Policing. He has called for the abolition of cops and wants a community […] The post Zohran Mamdani Shows His True Colors appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.
Who is Alex Vitale? Mamdani picks anti-cop professor who penned ‘The End of Policing’ for community safety committee
New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has tapped several prominent faces to join his transition team and one among them is Alex Vitale, the anti-cop professor who penned ‘The End of Policing’ for the community safety committee.
‘Natural enemy’: Mamdani names radical cop-hating professor to ‘community safety’ post
New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has appointed a university professor who has described police officers as “violence workers” to serve on his community safety committee. Mamdani announced […]
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