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OneLegUpAlex 's Shake It Off Soundbites of the Week - Future of NYPD in Mamdani's NYC 11-10-25 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, as promised, it is the Shake It
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  Speaker 1: Off Soundbites of the week this week, and I once
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  Speaker 1: again was given the opportunity by Lucas A Ferrara to
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  Speaker 1: join his show with Mert Roberts on AM nine seven
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  Speaker 1: the Answer and ask our guests the last couple of
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  Speaker 1: weeks some questions and with the Mam Donnie election looming
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  Speaker 1: large last week and this week, of course, I asked
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  Speaker 1: about the NYPD and its fate. And I first asked
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  Speaker 1: that to Joe BURRELLI, former councilman and actually minority whip
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  Speaker 1: of the city Council, about whether or not Mam Donnie
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  Speaker 1: would truly welcome back to Jessica Tish and if Commissioner
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  Speaker 1: Tish would actually accept the offer to return back to
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  Speaker 1: the NYPD.
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  Speaker 2: We only have a few minutes left, Joe, and we
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  Speaker 2: have a question from our producer, Alex Garrett.
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  Speaker 1: Go galax, all right, we're talking about the Social Workers NYPD.
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  Speaker 1: I have a question for you, Joe Low the extending
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  Speaker 1: of the oll advertance to Jessica Tish. Will she accept
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  Speaker 1: it if he gets elected or not?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. It's it's a tough call for her, right,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, she has her own political ambitions that she
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  Speaker 3: might want to test, you know, and if she's maybe
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  Speaker 3: the candidate to run against Mamdani in his first reelection.
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  Speaker 3: And the other question is, you know, who's in charge
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  Speaker 3: of the NYPD. Is is it going to be Commissioner
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  Speaker 3: Tish or is it going to be Zoa and Momdani.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, at the end of the day, you know,
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  Speaker 3: she serves, like all commissioners, at the pleasure of the mayor.
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  Speaker 3: And if the mayor is telling the NYPD we're changing
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  Speaker 3: our policies, he has the right to do that. He
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  Speaker 3: has the ability to do that. So it's unclear like
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  Speaker 3: whether just having her there as a way to satisfy moderates.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that's all he did. By the way. He
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  Speaker 3: was so smart to do it, you know. And I
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  Speaker 3: even criticize, like Curtis Leewolf for being too shortsighted to
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  Speaker 3: even see things like, hey, why don't you just say
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  Speaker 3: you're going to keep Jessica Tish. She seems really popular,
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  Speaker 3: Maybe people will think you're serious about being mayor. He
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  Speaker 3: didn't do that, of course, but like I think it
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  Speaker 3: was a good play by Mom Donnie to try to
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  Speaker 3: show people that he could be moderate. He could be
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  Speaker 3: a little bit and say more moderate than his critics.
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  Speaker 3: Smite my painting to me.
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  Speaker 1: And then I don't if you know this name, Chief Aradondo,
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  Speaker 1: who was the Minneapolis police chief during that George Floyd
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  Speaker 1: tragedy and the aftermath and yes, even the votes to
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  Speaker 1: disband defund the Minneapolis Police Department following the George Floyd tragedy. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I asked him what Mam Donnie's threats to disband even
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  Speaker 1: one part of the NYPD would mean for this city.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Chief, our producer Alex Garrett has been patiently waiting.
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  Speaker 2: He's a big chief, So go ahead, Alex, say loaded
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  Speaker 2: the chief.
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  Speaker 1: Chief awesome having united as always. And you know we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about the socialism, the social you know, social worker part,
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  Speaker 1: But I would about the disbanding part. When New Yorker's
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  Speaker 1: here that mom Donnie wants to disband units. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you kind of underwent those threats in Minnesota. Can the
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  Speaker 1: city council step been in stop that? I mean, can
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  Speaker 1: they stop them from disbanding units here?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I will tell you real time, Alex, what happened
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  Speaker 4: here in Minneapolis the previous election for the first time
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  Speaker 4: in the city of Minneapolis. A ballot referendum was put
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  Speaker 4: on for basically to disband the Minneapolis police Department. Communities
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  Speaker 4: overwhelmingly came out and voted against it. In matter of fact,
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  Speaker 4: alex communities that had had a history of grievances, documented
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  Speaker 4: grievances and complaints with the minimsolute department came out and
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  Speaker 4: voted against it. And the reason why Alex is they
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  Speaker 4: said two things can be true at once. We can
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  Speaker 4: have a police department that needs reform, that needs to
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  Speaker 4: be improved, but we still need police. And I will
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  Speaker 4: tell you that this recent mayoral election here in Minneapolis,
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  Speaker 4: public safety was number one on the ballot and people said,
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  Speaker 4: at the end of the day, we don't need less police.
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  Speaker 4: We need more police. We need for them to do
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  Speaker 4: the job right, but we need more police. So so
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  Speaker 4: it will be interesting to see. I've I've certainly aware
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  Speaker 4: of previous comments that Marrilect Mendami has has said about NYPD,
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  Speaker 4: but I certainly will tell you here in Minneapolis that
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  Speaker 4: has been walked back. Those sentiments have been walked back
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  Speaker 4: here in Minneapolis about disbanding the police and defunding the police.
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  Speaker 4: Uh that that is that is not aged well here.
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  Speaker 1: And one last thing rich for Commissioner Tish, she's hearing
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  Speaker 1: all of this, what's your advice to her, because you've
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  Speaker 1: led a department, talk about your advice or her as
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  Speaker 1: she leads into this next phase in New York.
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  Speaker 4: It fields like I think, I think it's going to
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  Speaker 4: be very important. Obviously, the Commissioner is going to have
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  Speaker 4: to have a strong relationship with the Mayor. I think
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  Speaker 4: it's important for them, uh, you know, obviously she serves
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  Speaker 4: at the pleasure of the Mayor. I think it's going
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  Speaker 4: to be important for for her to uh talk about
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  Speaker 4: her leadership style, you know, how how best she will
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  Speaker 4: work with the Mayor's office, what she sees as the
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  Speaker 4: strengths of NYPD in terms of providing that public safety
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  Speaker 4: to all New York residents. And I think it's going to.
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  Speaker 3: Be important for him.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously he's publicly, at least from my vantage point, he's
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  Speaker 4: tried to either clarify statements he's made in the past
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  Speaker 4: regarding NYPD. I think all of us should have some
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  Speaker 4: grace in terms of learning in time. And I think
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  Speaker 4: it's but it's going to be critically important that they're
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  Speaker 4: on the same page. I think that I will say
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  Speaker 4: here from Minneapolis. As soon as Minneapolis residents or New
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  Speaker 4: York City residents, if they see that there's a bit
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  Speaker 4: of daylight between the Commission and the mayor, that can
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  Speaker 4: be problematic. And so I think not that they're always
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  Speaker 4: going to agree, but I think that moving forward, that
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  Speaker 4: both of them seem unified in their approach to keeping
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  Speaker 4: New New York City residence safe. I think that's a
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  Speaker 4: good way to at least start out.
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  Speaker 1: Now as being of law enforcement. And by the way,
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  Speaker 1: thanks again Lucas for having me join in and ask
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  Speaker 1: them questions there. But the other thing I want to
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  Speaker 1: mention about law enforcement is there's an article by USA
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  Speaker 1: Today that says Mamdanni could be arrested by Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, USA Today writing this article with the headline
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  Speaker 1: Trump threatens to punish NYC over mam Donnie Well he
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  Speaker 1: arrests the new mayor, this would be possibly stripping him
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  Speaker 1: of a citizenship of Mandanni, then the assistant on Federal
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  Speaker 1: Immigration Enforcement. That sounds kind of insane. Mamdanni, born in Uganda,
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  Speaker 1: moved to the United States as a child and was
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  Speaker 1: actually raised in Manhattan's born in Side Heights, became a
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  Speaker 1: naturalisis in twenty eighteen. The fact that he's threat to
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  Speaker 1: arrest Mom Donnie, I would not want that unless it's
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  Speaker 1: not a real, possible, plausible cause. Other than that, don't
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  Speaker 1: do that. I would say, let's see how he does
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  Speaker 1: his first term. But more importantly, let's not arrest him
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  Speaker 1: on something that it seems like a non factor. The
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  Speaker 1: guy's a citizen. The guy is a citizen, d J referral,
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  Speaker 1: have to DOJ referral whatever. The guy's a naturalized citizens
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  Speaker 1: of twenty eighteen. Leave him alone in that regard. Arresting
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  Speaker 1: him would be dumb, but we must be mindful of
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  Speaker 1: his threats to the NYPD, which is why I asked
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  Speaker 1: Joe Borelli and Chief Ardando about his plans maum Donnie's
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  Speaker 1: plans heading into twenty twenty six. And I'm so honored
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  Speaker 1: that Lucas Embert allowed me to chime in the last
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  Speaker 1: couple of weeks, as it's been election heavy here on
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  Speaker 1: all the amnis of the n sure, but one like
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  Speaker 1: up with Alex Garrett. We'll talk to you soon.