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Jon Stewart: “The Department of Community Safety, which is, you know, one…”

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Socialism, Politics & NYC | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

Published | Video Starts at 46:26

And there also can't be a definition of safety that is purely after the fact, meaning that how you respond to violence, we also have to do the work of investing so that we prevent violence. To that point, The Department of Community Safety, which is, you know, one of those things that you had ran on, which I think was sort of reprioritizing some of those assets so that not necessarily. It was always police were the first responders to everything. There was also a social. How, how has that come. I know it. The money for it didn't exist. You had to do an executive order, I believe. (46:26–46:40)

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Asserts that the Department of Community Safety was created to reprioritize assets so police are not always the first responders.

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