{"id":76882,"date":"2026-02-17T18:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/mamdani-faces-first-showdown-with-nypd-will-he-risk-alienating-police\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T18:31:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T13:01:00","slug":"mamdani-faces-first-showdown-with-nypd-will-he-risk-alienating-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/mamdani-faces-first-showdown-with-nypd-will-he-risk-alienating-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani faces first showdown with NYPD \u2013 will he risk alienating police?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nqenglish-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nqenglish-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b34a54b399fa0849dd437d8b271f095a4c5480a6\/1558_221_2372_1897\/master\/2372.jpg?width=1200&#038;height=630&#038;quality=85&#038;auto=format&#038;fit=crop&#038;precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&#038;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&#038;overlay-width=100p&#038;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&#038;enable=upscale&#038;s=50d61d0e77cfe5bd69734e1083e30296\" alt=\"Mamdani faces first showdown with NYPD \u2013 will he risk alienating police?\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-cat lang-en\">\u090f\u0928 \u0936\u0949\u0930\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0938'<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-headline\">Mamdani faces first showdown with NYPD \u2013 will he risk alienating police?<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">As an assembly member, Mamdani backed the Stop Fakes Act. Now, the NYPD has admitted to spying online \u2013 but wielding actual power as mayor is complexWhen Zohran Mamdani was a New York state assembly member, he sponsored the Stop Fakes Act, which would have prohibited law enforcement from creating fake electronic communication service accounts and collecting users\u2019 account information.\u201cDigital dragnet surveillance is widespread and dangerous, yet it continues to go unregulated,\u201d Mamdani co-wrote in a 2023 City &amp; State op-ed. \u201cAlthough the NYPD claimed in a Department of Justice report to keep detailed records of its undercover accounts, the department refuses to provide any documentation of its social media surveillance policies or practices for public review.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/17\/zohran-mamdani-nypd-stop-fakes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nqenglish-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts Mamdani faces first showdown with NYPD \u2013 will he risk alienating police? As an assembly member, Mamdani backed the Stop Fakes Act. Now, the NYPD has admitted to spying online \u2013 but wielding actual power as mayor is complexWhen Zohran Mamdani was a New York state assembly member, he sponsored the Stop Fakes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":76883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}