Mamdani Orders First NYPD Use-of-Force Review in a Decade
The Facts
- Mayor Zohran Mamdani ordered the NYPD on Monday to review its use-of-force policies, the first comprehensive examination in a decade. The review is set to unfold over the coming months and will reportedly include community engagement.
- The review follows the March 2024 killing of Win Rozario, 19, who called 911 during a mental health crisis at his home in Queens. Officers used Tasers before shooting him five times when he advanced towards them with a pair of scissors.
- The state AG's office declined to prosecute the officers involved in the incident and one of them, Salvatore Alongi, retired before a disciplinary trial could be held. Commissioner Jessica Tisch attributed the failure to notify the oversight board to human error.
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The Spin
Left narrative
When the government uses force on a New Yorker, the bar for accountability belongs at the absolute highest. Letting officers slide into retirement before a disciplinary case finishes makes a mockery of the whole system, and grieving families deserve answers instead of closed doors. Funding real independent oversight is a modest, overdue fix — hardly the radical overhaul some feared.
Right narrative
A sweeping use-of-force review rushed out to calm an angry political base makes nobody safer. Real dysfunction sits with a politically appointed board second-guessing split-second decisions in hindsight, while the city's own clerical failure gets papered over by blaming officers. Reviewing policies means little unless the biased way those rules get interpreted faces equal scrutiny.
