Zohran Mamdani: “A commitment I made on the campaign was to increase funding…”

“And we're going to do everything we can to ensure that's the case. And I know one of the points of concern has been the rise in anti Semitism that we've seen across the country. And A commitment I made on the campaign was to increase funding for hate crime prevention by 800%. And that's something we fulfilled in our executive budget, adding $26 million. Because so often the only answer we have to hate crimes is responding to it, to condemn it after the fact.” (16:00–16:06)

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