New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani just appointed Edwin Raymond as Sheriff of the City of New York — a man whose entire career has been built on the premise that police officers are inherently racist. It's like hiring a pyromaniac to run the fire department, except somehow dumber.
To call this guy a leftist lunatic would be putting it lightly.
Raymond is a former NYPD sergeant who became famous not for catching bad guys, but for suing the department. He was part of the so-called "NYPD 12" — a group of minority officers who filed a federal class action lawsuit alleging the NYPD used racially discriminatory arrest quotas targeting Black and Hispanic communities. He made a whole career out of going on cable news to tell America that the cops keeping their streets safe are the real problem.
And now he's the sheriff. The guy whose entire public identity is built around calling law enforcement racist is now in charge of law enforcement. Let that sink in for a minute.
Mamdani, for his part, was practically giddy about the appointment. "Edwin understands that true safety comes when government earns the confidence of the people it serves, and I am proud to welcome him to our administration as Sheriff of the City of New York," the mayor said. Translation: we picked the guy who hates cops the most and gave him a badge.
"True safety comes when government earns the confidence of the people." That's a real quote from the mayor of the largest city in America. Not "true safety comes from locking up criminals." Not "true safety comes from supporting the men and women who put on the uniform every day." Nope. True safety is apparently a trust exercise.
As Louder with Crowder reported on May 30, this is the same political class that spent the last several years trying to defund police departments while quietly hiring their own private security details. Rules for thee, armed guards for me.
Think about what this means for the cops on the ground. You're an NYPD officer working double shifts in a city where crime has been a top concern for years. Your new sheriff — the guy who's supposed to have your back — has spent his public career telling the world that you and every officer like you are racist by default. How's that for morale?
This isn't even subtle anymore. Mamdani ran as the most progressive candidate in a city famous for progressive candidates, and he's governing exactly the way he promised. The anti-cop candidate hired the anti-cop sheriff. Shocked? Nobody is.
The real victims here are the New Yorkers who actually want safe streets. The ones who call 911 and hope someone shows up. The bodega owners, the subway riders, the families in the Bronx who didn't ask for any of this. They're stuck with a mayor who thinks policing is the problem and a sheriff who agrees.
Good luck, New York. You're going to need it.