One of Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s transition team picks to advise on community safety is an author who once penned a book titled “The End of Policing.”
Alex Vitale, a Brooklyn College sociology professor, was among those tapped on Monday to help staff Mamdani’s committee on community safety amid the mayoral turnover.
“I’m excited to announce that I have been asked to join the Mamdani Transition Team to work on community safety issues. A New Era for NYC,” Vitale posted on X touting the news.
The liberal professor is behind a 2017 anti-cop book — titled “The End of Policing” — that decries “broken windows” and other proactive policies.
“The problem is not police training, police diversity, or police methods. The problem is the dramatic and unprecedented expansion and intensity of policing in the last 40 years, a fundamental shift in the role of police in society,” a description of the book reads.
“The problem is policing itself.”
Vitale has long argued against the broken-windows policing — claiming the NYPD has disproportionately and unjustifiably targeted minority communities in the past.
In the wake of his appointment to Mamdani’s transition team, scores of critics suggested his anti-cop rhetoric would spell “disaster” for the Big Apple.
“RIP NYC,” one person posted on X.
“This is a guaranteed disaster,” one X user chimed in.
Another added, “Reading your bio, the last thing in the world I’d entrust you with is community safety.”
