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Zohran Mamdani: “At the heart of my plan to create a Department of Community…”

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Zohran Mamdani Discusses Mayoral Campaign, NYPD's Role in ICE Raids, and Housing Plans

Published June 11, 2025 | Video Starts at 03:32

We've seen this very troubling rise in anti Semitism, and. And we know that it is incumbent upon us to not simply talk about it, but to tackle it. And that's why At the heart of my plan to create a Department of Community Safety is a commitment to increase funding for anti hate crime programming by 800%. to actually deliver a safer city for Jewish New Yorkers and to ensure that this fear that I know many are feeling, a fear that has been shared with me … (03:32–03:41)

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“60% of the hate crimes in the first quarter of this year have targeted Jewish New Yorkers.”
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“Making the slowest buses in the country fast and free, it costs about $700 million a year.”
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“Match the state's top corporate tax rate of 7.25% to that of New Jersey, 11.5%. That raises $5 billion.”
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“We have about 4,200 or so New Yorkers who are currently sleeping between our parks, our streets, and our subway stations.”
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“We have almost the same number of vacant supportive housing units.”
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“40% of incarcerated New Yorkers there have serious mental illness.”
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“It cost the city more than $500,000 to incarcerate some on Rikers.”
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“The administration [is] hell bent on fulfilling its promise to create the single largest deportation force ever in our history.”
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“The [current] mayor has raised the rent 9%, is looking to raise it up to an additional 8%.”
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“If the same city he was arrested in, Maryland had had sanctuary city laws, he never would have actually been sent to El Salvador.”
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“I do not believe [the NYPD] should be assisting ICE in these [raids].”
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“Historically, we know that the use of the National Guard is something that is typically requested by the governor of that state, not…”
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“Governor Hochul's pushing back on Donald Trump when he puts New York City and New York State within the crosshairs of his administration.”
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“The previous administration did [freeze the rent for rent stabilized tenants] three times.”
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“The city has the power to do [freeze the rent] through the Rent Guidelines Board, a board composed of nine members, all of whom are…”
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“1% of New Yorkers income earners make a million dollars or more a year. I would increase their taxes by 2%.”
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“That's about 34,000 households in New York City.”
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“Both of these taxes would leave those corporations and those wealthiest New Yorkers paying less in taxes than they did before the first…”
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“We were able to overcome that and raise 4 billion DOL taxes.”
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“The assembly and the Senate put out their vision for a budget, it includes regularly increasing taxes on those profitable corporations and…”
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“Eric Adams has spent money is not one that can be justified dollar for dollar, across the 160 different city agencies.”
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“The clubhouse model... has shown to decrease hospitalization rates by about 45%, increase employment rates by more than 50%, and they just…”
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“We are the only campaign that has a plan to deliver [cheaper groceries] through a network of municipal owned grocery stores.”
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