Hey, Zohran Mamdani: If you disagree with the Democratic Socialist of America’s call to end all policing of misdemeanor offenses, better say so — convincingly .
Start with the social-media fury over a recent Post online headline: “ Zohran Mamdani wants to end all misdemeanor charges: ‘E-ZPass for criminals.’ “
Headlines, by necessity, are only sketches; and this story’s top two paragraphs explain that it’s about how the national DSA’s most recent platform, adopted in 2021, calls for an end to “the criminalization of working-class survival,” which requires ending “all misdemeanor offenses, accounting for 80% of total court dockets”; readers soon learn that the “E-ZPass” charge comes from one of his opponents.
Yet Mamdani’s defenders went ballistic, insisting that it’s not Mamdani w