Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's transition team could be a big problem for all of NYC, writes The Post Editorial Board. James Keivom
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani says he no longer wants to “defund the police,” but his picks for his transition team sure send the opposite message.
Take Alex Vitale, tapped for the “community safety” committee.
The Brooklyn College prof doesn’t want to just “defund” the police; he wants to get rid of them altogether: He even wrote a book titled “The End of Policing.”
“The problem is not police training, police diversity, or police methods,” runs one description of the book. “The problem is policing itself.”
Vitale published that in 2017, three years before George Floyd’s death in police custody.
Naturally, he’s a particular peeved at broken-windows pol

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