It is unclear what the motivation for the crackdown is, but as we wrote, "This is not because Pittsburgh’s hooligans all got together on December 31st last year and made a collective New Year’s resolution to step up their game."

Spoiler alert: Not are the cops making about twice as many arrests a month as last year, they are also charging defendants more severely.

The police have always been backed by the military. Remember LA in 1992? It's just that Trump is making the connection more obvious these days.

Mamdani's just throwing a bone to the DSA after keeping Jessica Tisch on as police commissioner. Remember that Vitale will be gone in January, while Tisch will be around for the next four years.

That's also the ICE HQ.

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The union furrever.