Roughly eight weeks into his administration, Mayor Zohran Mamdani is being pressed by privacy advocates to dismantle major components of the NYPD’s surveillance infrastructure — arguing that he can use his mayoral powers to do so.
A new report released Thursday by the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) lays out eight steps the mayor, a longtime critic of police surveillance, could take without waiting for the City Council or state lawmakers.
