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Friend,
New York City is at a crossroads.
This week, S.T.O.P. released a new report - Dear Mamdani: Dismantle NYC’s Surveillance State – laying out exactly how Mayor Zohran Mamdani can rein in the NYPD’s sprawling surveillance apparatus and deliver on his campaign promises to protect New Yorkers’ civil liberties.
The NYPD’s surveillance infrastructure – from facial recognition and dragnet warrants to drones, social media spying, and illegal databases – puts immigrant New Yorkers directly in harm’s way, especially as the Trump administration ramps up ICE activity. And it doesn’t stop there. Protestors, journalists, healthcare seekers, researchers, and anyone targeted by the federal government are at risk when unchecked surveillance becomes business as usual.
Mayor Mamdani has forcefully opposed many of these tools. He’s condemned the gang database. He’s rejected facial recognition. He’s pledged to block data-sharing that fuels mass deportation. But eight weeks into his administration, those words haven’t yet turned into action.
Our report is a roadmap – not a wish list. It details concrete steps the mayor can take right now: grounding police drones, dismantling the gang and DNA databases, banning facial recognition, ending dragnet warrants, sharply limited social media surveillance, and proactively blocking collaboration with ICE. The mayor has these powers. We’re calling on him to use them.
Surveillance doesn’t make New York safer. It makes New Yorkers easier to target.
We’re calling on Mayor Mamdani to act – and we’re counting on you to help keep the pressure on. Read the report. Share it. Talk about it. Demand a city that protects people, not one that tracks them.
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