NYC mayor-elect appoints anti-police book author to transition team

A sociology professor at Brooklyn School appointed to the transition group of newly elected New York Metropolis Mayor Zohran Mamdani wrote a guide about ending policing.

“I’m excited to announce that I’ve been requested to hitch the Mamdani Transition Workforce to work on neighborhood issues of safety. A brand new period for NYC,” stated Alex Vitale on X.

Vitale is the creator of “The Finish of Policing,” printed in 2017. The guide, which begins by explaining that police don’t exist to assist residents, advocates an finish to conventional policing of sure felony actions, together with narcotics use, prostitution, border patrol and “misbehaving adolescents.” The guide additionally states that police shouldn’t battle road gangs.

Alex Vitale, creator of “The Finish of Policing,” speaks throughout a dialogue about college policing on the College of Southern Maine on Thursday, March 5, 2020. Different audio system included, from left, Portland Police Chief Frank Clark, South Portland Faculty Useful resource Officer Al Giusto, Portland Faculty Board President Roberto Rodriguez and Al Cleveland of Maine Youth Justice. (Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Portland Press Herald through Getty Photographs)

In ending gang items, Vitale states that they’re racist.

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“In most cities, gang items operate as a mechanism for racial social management,” the guide says in chapter 5. “Black and Latino youth are labeled as gang members for hanging out collectively, whereas white youth teams are dismissed as innocent.”

In line with the creator, Border Patrol can be racist.

“The enlargement of Border Patrol powers is justified by worry and racism. It legitimizes xenophobic narratives that outline immigrants as threats quite than as colleagues or neighbors,” the guide says in chapter six.

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Vitale additionally describes the border police as “inhumane.”

Chapter 9 of the guide argues towards coaching law enforcement officials on implicit bias, claiming that law enforcement officials’ views on race don’t matter as a result of all the police system is racist.

Zohran Mamdani provides a victory speech at an evening watch social gathering for the mayor, on Tuesday, November 4, 2025, in New York Metropolis. (Yuki Iwamura/AP)

“Police racism is structural, not merely a product of dangerous attitudes,” the guide says. “Coaching officers to acknowledge implicit bias with out altering what they’re purported to implement is like educating a soldier to be delicate whereas sending him to a overseas nation.”

In line with the professor’s profile on Brooklyn School’s web site, Vitale has been writing about policing and consulting with legislation enforcement and worldwide human rights organizations for 30 years.

In line with his college profile, he teaches programs on African Individuals within the felony justice system.

Vitale has typically known as for the abolishment of the police X accounttogether with bicycle police, police helicopters and police in faculties. He has additionally known as for the abolition of joint terrorism activity forces, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Border Patrol and even the presidency of the US.

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NYPD officers reply to a capturing. (John Nacion/SOPA Photographs/LightRocket through Getty Photographs)

He has additionally known as on the NYPD to abolish the gang database.

Neither Vitale nor Brooklyn School returned requests for remark.

Mamdani has employed others who harbor anti-police sentiments.

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Earlier this month, he introduced that marketing campaign adviser Elle Bisgaard-Church would be part of his employees. She has been known as the “chief architect” of Mamdani’s marketing campaign proposal to have social employees reply to sure non-violent 911 calls and is affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America.

Mamdani officers didn’t return a request for remark.

Fox Information’ Alec Schemmel contributed to this report.