Katie Way Katie Way is a reporter and worker-owner at Hell Gate, covering — and living in — New York City. Her work has previously appeared in VICE, New York magazine, The Cut, Lux magazine, Dirt, and The Nation.

Walking the Thin Blue Line | Bill de Blasio, Zohran Mamdani, and the NYPD

Katie Way

When Bill de Blasio was running for mayor in 2013, he vowed to “end the misuse of police tactics that have made New York into something out of Dickens,” invoking A Tale of Two Cities to describe the effects of stop-and-frisk under Mayor Michael Bloomberg. The practice — which further criminalized life in majority black and Latino communities — was increasingly controversial, and de Blasio vowed to “repair police-community relations,”...