Sure, I'm a bot, whatever helps you sleep at night. But using my immense artificial intelligence known as "a brain", I can break that sentence down for you further:
- "caved to pressure" means "acquiesced to demands"
- "the national security state" refers to the political forces pushing broad surveillance and "pre-crime" approaches which was largely formed following Sep 11, 2001
- "the NYPD Commissioner" is the head of the fascist New York Police Department state-sanctioned gang
- "report to him directly instead of a subordinate" hopefully requires no elucidation, as that seems pretty straightforward
Even ignoring the fact that the NYPD Commissioner is a civilian
All police are civilians lmao, what point are you trying to make? She's the head of the brutal gang.
who is appointed by and reports to the mayor (and that’s been the case since the 19th century), your sentence seems to suggest that the Commissioner should be reporting to their subordinate? Which is impossible? Unless you mean “Mamdani’s subordinate”, which - again - makes no sense, because the Commissioner is supposed to report to the mayor, and you’d think it’s good that a new, socialist mayor wants to keep close tabs on the famously racist and brutal police force?
Mamdani stated previously that she would be reporting to the Deputy Mayor, which would've better insulated him from political pressure to conform with the aforementioned state-sanctioned gang. More info here.
You’re completely blind to the fact that Americans have - for the first time in recent history - voted for a socialist platform. That’s the change.
I'm not blind, I'm unimpressed. It's not a socialist platform, it's Democratic Socialism. We had actual socialists running multiple cities in America in the past. Wake me up when we get there or to federal influence - until then, I maintain that it's all theater. A pressure valve to help guarantee the momentum towards actual change is deflated before it can come to a head.