Earlier this week, New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani appointed a university professor to “advise his incoming administration on community safety matters.” There’s just one problem: this professor has a history of hating police, going so far as to call law enforcement officers the “enemy” of the working class.

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From the Daily Caller News Foundation:

Mamdani announced Monday that Alex Vitale, a sociology professor at Brooklyn College, will advise his incoming administration on community safety matters. Vitale has a long history of disparaging police, calling them the “natural enemy” of the working class, and advocating for defunding law enforcement.

The appointment casts fresh doubt on the mayor-elect‘s attempt to distance himself from his own past remarks calling for the defunding of the New York Police Department (NYPD), which he labeled a “racist, anti-queer and a major threat to public safety.”

Vitale referred to individual officers as “class enemies” during a 2020 interview with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) when asked where police fit into the “class struggle.”

You can see Vitale’s 2020 comments in the video below.

🚨 Mamdani’s Transition Team Now Includes a Professor Who Calls Police “Class Enemies.”

Professor Alex Vitale explained on a DSA call that cops are “the natural enemy of the working class” and that individual officers do not matter because the structure itself neutralizes their… pic.twitter.com/ADMahXmdRE

— Stu Smith (@thestustustudio) November 25, 2025

In addition to the above comments, Vitale also wrote in a 2017 book that “the problem is policing itself.” He has also stated that the police, historically speaking, existed to “facilitate racial inequality,” and that the industry itself emerged “out of colonialism, slavery, and industrial capitalism.”

For months now, the Daily Caller notes that Mayor-elect Mamdani has sought to walk back previous comments about defunding the police, going so far as to apologize to officers in October. However, his appointment of a radical like Vitale shows that the Mayor-elect may not have truly let go of this position. It’s also worth noting that Vitale’s anti=police views are in line with the Democratic Socialists of America, a group that Mayor-elect Mamdani is a member of.

Let’s pray into Mayor-elect Mamdani’s appointment of Vitale, and let’s pray for the protection of police officer in New York City.

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(Excerpt from the Daily Caller News Foundation. Photo Credit: Bingjiefu He – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=166035777)