Newsweek kind of fucking up the lede here but:
Under Mamdani’s directive, city agencies are required to safeguard personal information and limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
This latest executive order, Mamdani’s 13th since taking office, prohibits sharing information collected for city purposes with federal authorities except when required by law. Each agency has 14 days to appoint a privacy officer and take other steps to ensure compliance.
The order directs the New York Police Department, Department of Correction, Department of Probation, Administration for Children’s Services and Department of Social Services to audit their internal policies on interactions with federal immigration authorities and make any necessary changes public. It also bars ICE agents from entering city-controlled properties such as schools, hospitals, shelters and parking facilities without a judicial warrant.
Hopefully this helps.
But there is a LONG history of progressive legislature to minimize harm that cops just actively refuse to enforce. And considering this would require them to stand up to people in tacticool gear with a track record of murder…
The part about adding a compliance officer to each agency should help with that, as long as it’s implemented intelligently which I believe Mamdani is capable of
You can add as many compliance officers as you want to. Hell, you can grab ALL the cops who hang out at high schools and sexually harass/assault kids and make this their job.
It won’t matter if they actively choose not to resist. Which is what almost always happens with stuff like this.
I like Mamdani’s messaging a lot. Stuff like this… reminds me about how worried I am about his ability to act on that messaging. But, “fortunately”, the christofacists are more focused on attacking Minnesota and Illinois than New York so this might not have to meaningfully be tested.
That’s why I said if it’s implemented well. Good implementation implies selecting the right people for the job.
A compliance officer doesn’t have to be a cop, he could hire someone from the public defender’s office or even a civil sector human rights org
We really need to move to the point where if cops can’t do whqt the city government tells them then they’re fired or not being paid. If I knew I could just ignore whatever my boss tells me, never get fired or even seriously disciplined, and demand a raise every year, you bet your ass I’d be doing things however I want.
Cop staffing is already below minimum levels. No one wants the (very real) PTSD that any emergency worker gets, for that kinda cash.
I’d suggest we rehab them into proper cops but this is Lemmy.
In a world where a literal police strike led to a lower rate of violent crime, this is not a claim that should be accepted without extraordinary evidence.
At the very least, a city whose “cop staffing” is below their minimum should have an obvious increase in crime relative to comparable jurisdictions.
Im with you but
Is a wild claim to make without any evidence.
EDIT: Found some evidence. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-017-0211-5
Only because we have cops doing things cops shouldn’t be doing, and aren’t trained to do. We’re sending in hammers to handle delicate situations and shocked when they try to bash their way through them.