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Robert Gangi was a Democratic candidate for mayor of New York, New York. Gangi was defeated in the primary election on September 12, 2017.
Biography
Gangi is a community activist who co-founded the Police Reforming Organizing Project in 2011.[1]
Elections
2017
- See also: Municipal elections in New York, New York (2017)
Incumbent Bill de Blasio defeated Sal Albanese, Michael Tolkin, Robert Gangi, and Richard Bashner in the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City.[2]
| Mayor of New York City, Democratic Primary Election, 2017 |
| Candidate |
Vote % |
Votes |
 Bill de Blasio Incumbent |
74.00% |
343,054 |
| Sal Albanese |
15.21% |
70,521 |
| Michael Tolkin |
4.70% |
21,771 |
| Robert Gangi |
3.09% |
14,321 |
| Richard Bashner |
2.44% |
11,296 |
| Write-in votes |
0.56% |
2,606 |
| Total Votes |
463,569 |
| Source: New York City Board of Elections, "2017 Primary: Official Election Results," September 26, 2017 |
2017
Gangi's campaign website included the following themes:
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND POLICE REFORM
- Abolish “broken windows” policing that targets low-income New Yorkers of color for engaging in petty infractions that have been virtually decriminalized in well-off white communities. There is a special urgency involved here as arrests for petty offenses also put immigrant NYers at risk for deportation.
- Eliminate the quota system for evaluating officers’ performance that emphasizes only their punitive interactions with New Yorkers and that, in effect, incentivizes bad policing.
- Dismiss Dan Pantaleo and all the officers who engaged in the reckless and irresponsible arrest and killing of Eric Garner.
- Decriminalize these 4 offenses: fare evasion, marijuana possession, sex work, & gravity knife possession, in line with the recommendations of the blue-ribbon Lippman Commission which de Blasio forcefully rejected. These steps will allow us to significantly decrease the city's incarcerated population.
- Close Rikers in the first year of our administration, saving roughly $1.3 billion for the city that could be diverted to schools, affordable housing, free metrocards, better resources for people with mental health issues
- Allow all pre-trial detainees on Rikers Island to have charges against them dismissed, if such charges involve low-level "broken windows" infractions or violations.
- Allow some detainees on Rikers Island, particularly those who have not been convicted of serious crimes or offenses, to be released on parole especially if the conviction was for a low-level "broken windows" offense.
- Eliminate bail requirements for detainees awaiting trial for low-level offenses, as this unnecessarily keeps poor New Yorkers in jail for longer periods of time and criminalizes poverty.
- Reduce the budget (the current law enforcement budget is about $10 billion), personnel, resources, and power of the NYPD, the guiding principle being in part the time-honored shibboleth that “power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely” applied to the unchecked power of the NYPD. Instead we will add funds to the city's 2018 budget that provide for free subway & bus fares for low-income NYers.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
- Make small class size a priority in public schools throughout New York City. Although research clearly documents that small class size improves the academic performance of all students across racial and class lines, the de Blasio administration has made no significant commitment to reduce the number of pupils in public school classes. It is relevant to note here that 62% of our city's public school children attend overcrowded schools.
- Promote desegregation in schools across the system. Research has also shown that integrated classes improve the academic performance of all students, yet the current administration has only a small scale pilot project pilot aimed at achieving this proven and worthy goal.
- Hire more teachers. The city should allocate the savings from our proposed reductions to the budgets for the NYPD and city jails to support smaller classes and hire more teachers throughout our public school system.
AFFORDABLE HOUSING
- Create a New York City Land Bank that will partner with the already appreciable number of experienced community-based housing groups to develop housing on city-owned vacant lots and/or to renovate and manage city-owned abandoned buildings in low-income neighborhoods throughout the city.
- Establish and adhere to the principle that all new housing units created in our inner-city communities are affordable for the low-income families and individuals who currently live in those neighborhoods.
- Designate a unit within the City's housing agency that will proactively investigate landlord abuses or illegal deregulations of existing rent stabilized units, instead of waiting for action by tenants who often do not know their their rights or fear eviction.
- Use the neighborhood median index, rather than the city-wide median index, to provide affordable housing to low-income and homeless New Yorkers[3][4]
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| —Robert Gangi (2017)
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