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“Since [Mayor] Mamdani took office, his approach to policing has not been all that different from the policies he railed against during the 2025 campaign. Let’s hope the mayor has not fallen into the trap of all of his predecessors since the late 1980s – Mayors Koch, Dinkins, Giuliani, Bloomberg, de Blasio and Adams. All of them tolerated or gave a wink-and-nod approval to…ugly police tactics.” –David R. Jones, Esq., president and CEO of the Community Service Society The rationale for Tisch Watch (TW), the Indypendent’s new policing notebook, connects to the insights above from David R. Jones, a leading civil rights activist who has watched New York City policing closely for the past half-century.

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