Overview

• Mamdani’s mayoral campaign paid $33,495 to Advanced Security & Investigations between June and July, with the firm advertising itself as a “proud employer” of NYPD officers.
• The openly socialist candidate has renounced his 2020 calls to defund the NYPD, pledging instead to maintain current staffing while targeting overtime costs and funding alternative response teams.
• He has vowed to disband the NYPD Strategic Response Group, citing its history of costly lawsuits and alleged brutality against protesters.
• Critics from across the political spectrum have seized on Mamdani’s private security contract as evidence of double standards in his approach to policing.
• Mamdani defends his revised stance on law enforcement as a necessary response to public safety challenges and dismisses former tweets as out of step with his campaign platform.