Tiffany Caban & The Changing Face of NYC

Last night, as the results were trickling in for the Queens DA primary and it became clear that Tiffany Caban was winning (although she's not the official winner yet since there are outstanding ballots left to count), I imagined what a great tabloid headline for her victory might be -- something like "Tiffany Takes Queens" or "Upset in Queens" or just "CaBAM!" I remember when Olympic skater Sarah Hughes won a gold medal in 2002, a tabloid headline was simple "Sarah!" -- so how about "Tiffany!" 

Sadly, I didn't see anything like that today -- probably because the tabloids aren't too happy about a social justice-minded Latina winning power -- so I've provided the headlines for you. 

Kidding aside, Tiffany Caban's primary victory is huge -- a very young queer Latina won a very competitive primary against the establishment favorite in a borough-wide race outside the Bronx. She will be, assuming she wins the November general election, the most powerful person in Queens and one of the most powerful in all of NYC. She will end cash bail, cease prosecute weed busts and sex workers, and seek compassionate solutions to crime, not the old shattering so-called "law and order" tactics of the past.

Tiffany's victory is a seismic generational and attitudinal change to law enforcement in NYC. The same multi-racial, multi-generational, multi-everything coalition that elected AOC last year came together again in this race -- and this is now the new normal, the new face of NYC. 

The future is here -- and it's not waiting its turn.