Representatives of law enforcement unions are due to gather Thursday in Queens for what organizers clearly hope will serve as a political warning to elected officials that ignoring their critiques of current criminal justice practices will cost them at the polls. While nonpartisan in format, this signals an effort to exercise clout in the current governor’s race, amid newly elected New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s incumbency.

Hosted by the Detectives Endowment Association of the NYPD, under the aegis of the “New York State Public Safety Alliance,” the featured speakers at the gathering at Russo’s On the Bay in Howard Beach are due to include: Lou Civello, president of the Suffolk County Police Benevolent Association; Scott Munro, the DEA president; John Davidson, president of the Buffalo PBA and Frank Siller, chairman and CEO of the Tunnel to Towers Foundation, and several others.

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