Is Mamdani’s Plan to Disband NYPD Riot Control-Unit a Gift to the ‘Protest Industrial Complex’
13th November 2026
Socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plan to dismantle the NYPD’s roughly 600-officer protest unit could hand far-left activist networks, including NGOs linked to China-based Marxist financier Neville Roy Singham, a gift by weakening the city’s ability to respond to large demonstrations or riots.