Ron DeSantis says NYC cops should quit since new Mayor Zohran Mamdani hates them

Florida’s Governor says police officers in the Big Apple should abandon the city after Zohran Mamdani won Tuesday’s mayoral election.

“The $5k recruitment bonus we give to new officers will be utilized by a number of these NYPD officers. There is no reason to risk your life serving when the mayor hates you and believes your department shouldn’t even exist,” Gov. Ron DeSantis posted to social media.

DeSantis was responding to another poster, who said police officers were “putting in their papers” to leave after the Democrat defeated independent Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa.

DeSantis has framed the police recruitment program as a way to appeal to “mistreated” officers with an inability to “take that environment” in New York and other Democratic strongholds.

The Governor has made similar points this year.

Speaking at the 2025 Florida Sheriffs Association Summer Conference, he predicted attendees would “end up at this conference next year, potentially, be talking about, hey, they elected some anti law enforcement mayor in New York City, and now all these NYPD cops want to come work in our agencies and get the $5,000 bonus.”

He also has complained that the candidate wants to replace police with social workers.

DeSantis has been vocal about Mamdani this week, saying New Yorkers committed an act of “ballistic podiatry” by electing him, and saying that his administration would make that of former Mayor Bill de Blasio look like the “golden age.”

Before the election, he said that if elected, Mamdani would be “the most prominent Democrat in America the day he takes office.”

Mamdani has yet to mention DeSantis publicly, meanwhile.