Bo Dietl to Newsmax: Officers Will Leave NYPD if Mamdani Wins

Police officers are leaving the New York Police Department in record numbers, and union officials say the situation could get worse if self-labeled democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani wins the mayoral election, said retired NYPD detective Bo Dietl.

The entire situation “is all an offshoot from 2020, when they had the George Floyd riots and how the cops were treated right back then and how the distaste for police officers all came about,” Dietl told Newsmax’s “Finnerty.”

“And then I got to go back to cellphones because this is what goes online. This is how the hatred develops.

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