Mamdani signals disbanding NYPD protest unit, calls for higher taxes on top 1% amid budget reckoning

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani declared Wednesday that "we need to disband" the NYPD protest unit, while also issuing a call for higher taxes on the city’s wealthiest. 

The Democrat previously pledged on X in December 2024 to dismantle the New York Police Department’s Strategic Response Group (SRG). 

"Yes, I continue to believe that we need to disband the SRG, and I'm currently in conversations with the police commissioner about the ways in which we can do so that are operational...