Policing & Public Safety Under a Socialist Mayor

Start: Saturday, November 22, 2025•05:30 PM

End: Saturday, November 22, 2025•07:30 PM

Location: Another World• 629 Nostrand Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11216 US

The NYC-DSA Racial Justice Working Group presents a panel with abolitionist organizers, educators and policy experts to explore a critical question: What can a socialist mayor concretely do to transform public safety in New York City?


With socialist Zohran Mamdani's campaign for NYC Mayor offering new models for community safety, the question of policing and public safety has become both urgent and complex: What does it mean to be a socialist mayor who also oversees the largest and most over-resourced municipal police department in the United States?


Panelists

  • Alex Vitale - Author of The End of Policing and Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College.

  • Cheryl Rivera - Founder of Another World (Brooklyn-based community space and movement center), Crown Heights Care Collective, and editor at socialist feminist magazine Lux.

  • Calvin John Smiley - Author of Defund: Conversations Toward Abolition and Professor of Sociology at Hunter College.