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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • In order to get erstwhile sympathetic leaders like Mamdani to take a firmer stance with police misconduct, there has to be more messaging to voters about defunding the police - because defunding is the only thing local governments can threaten them with, and you’ll have to be ready to play hardball to beat police unions. They’re effectively paramilitary juntas in every jurisdiction, killing with impunity.

    Yet even when the defund movement was at its peak, the polling numbers weren’t strong enough to get support for it. The message still has not reached the average voter that cops are unnecessary, bad, and need to go. Mamdani didn’t run on being anti-cop, so it’s weird to judge him by that yardstick anyway, but we have heard him be sympathetic towards anti-cop movements - and his political opponents have used that as a cudgel against him. I think we would be able to expect more action from leaders like him if polling data said a lot more people were in favor of defunding.