Bill Bratton on Mayor-Elect Mamdani

I think the only mistake is believing that you’re getting facts.

Maybe it won’t change the world, but it might change someone’s day.

My favorite type of joke might lowkey be a lie.

In this moment of political darkness, New York will be the light.

I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves.

New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant.

A lot of people made fun about the helicopter. But guess what. It landed here today! It landed here today! It landed here today!

There are no ifs, ands or buts about it: The central premise of our democratic system is that we have to be able to disagree and have sometimes really contentious debates without resorting to violence. And when it happens to some, but even if you think they’re, quote, unquote, on the other side of the argument, that’s a threat to all of us