Mamdani Wants to Leave Battered Women Without Police Protection

The shocking headlines read like dark satire jokes on sites like The Onion or Babylon Bee. Only, tragically, they’re real.

While leftists claim they care for women and other historically marginalized groups, their policies show otherwise. Latest case: socialist New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani saying domestic violence victims don’t deserve police response.

As reported by Jon Levine at the Washington Free Beacon, Mamdani said during a 2020 podcast that armed police were not the correct response to domestic violence calls. The New York Police Department reportedly responded to these types of calls more than 100,000 times in 2024.

As a domestic abuse survivor (and nearly 10-year resident of New York City who fled in 2020), for me, this is a horrific, chilling sentiment from a supposed public servant. 

It’s also a slap in the face to women, who are by far the most common victims of domestic violence, rather than tall, young men like Mamdani, who at 33 years old towers above women in his social media posts. 

“There’s a lot of humans who are victims in the city of New York, and they need protection because sometimes it’s a matter of life and death. They’re hiding in the bathroom with their children, and they need someone to come immediately,” Michelle Esquenazi, founder of the New York-based Victims Rights Reform Council, told Fox News Digital. 

Esquenazi said the New York Police Department saved her life after her ex-husband attacked her in their Queens home in 1993 while she was pregnant and with her other children.

In another classic case of rich celebrities wanting private security, but not public security for impoverished victims, Levine also reported that Mamdani has spent over $33,000 on private security during his campaign. 

Though he’s trying to backpedal, just a few years ago, Mamdani said the New York City Police Department is a “wicked and corrupt” institution that must be “defunded” and “dismantled.” 

Jim Quinn at the New York Post rightly called out Mamdani for dangerously blaming “the police themselves” for “perpetrating an enormous amount” of violent crime, “especially with regard to sexual violence.”

While calling to defund the police, Mamdani also tweeted, “The NYPD is racist, anti-queer and a major threat to public safety.” 

Author Rob Henderson, victim of America’s foster care system, coined the powerful term “luxury beliefs” to describe supposedly altruistic beliefs held by upper-class elites that, when paired with public policy, actually severely harm lower-income classes.

One such belief is opposition to the police and our criminal justice system. It particularly harms vulnerable children, as my seven siblings and I experienced. My father spent time in jail for violent street brawls and assaulting us kids, especially my five brothers. We took public welfare, accepted church pantry food, and utilized free health clinics. We were homeless sometimes and living in tents, including one in a public campground where my mother birthed my older brother.

Mamdani would leave kids from poor families like mine exposed to domestic violence. 

I’m white, and if I still lived in Manhattan, Mamdani apparently would also punish me for my race. He’s said he wants to hike property taxes on “whiter neighborhoods.” This even though Mamdani lived a far more privileged life than my abusive childhood. 

This unconstitutional racism is blatantly un-American, especially given how Mamdani epitomizes the capitalist American Dream he seeks to destroy. Mamdani is a socialist with a capitalist lifestyle and pedigree. 

Mamdani’s mother is Mira Nair, an Oscar winning filmmaker whose movies grossed over $100 million. Mamdani spent his childhood on luxurious red carpets. 

Jewish activist Samantha Ettus pointed out that at age 12, Mamdani attended the 2004 Venice Film Festival, rubbing shoulders with actress Reese Witherspoon.

Mamdani’s father is a tenured Columbia University professor. The younger Mandami grew up attending Bank Street School, an exclusive private school with tuition reaching $69,000 per year. As a child, Mamdani lived on Riverside Drive in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, one of the world’s most exclusive ZIP codes. 

As an adult, he attended Bowdoin College, reportedly without any financial aid for the pricey school, now costing $71,000 per year for tuition alone. 

Mamdani is the quintessential example of an elitist hypocrite who seeks to destroy the system that gave him a blessed life. 

Vulnerable women, children, and poor New Yorkers from all walks of life deserve far more than Mamdani’s dangerous myopia.

Carrie Sheffield is a senior policy analyst at Independent Women’s Voice and author of ”Motorhome Prophecies: A Journey of Healing and Forgiveness.”

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