Zohran Mamdani: “Create a Department of Community Safety that would tackle…”

“And we can see the results of that in our inability to increase our clearance rates for the major seven categories of crime. And so what we've put forward as a proposal is to Create a Department of Community Safety that would tackle the mental health crisis, homelessness, gun violence, hate violence and victim services. Doing so in a manner that's aggressively pursuing evidence based policies that have proven successful elsewhere in the country and allowing police to focus on their actual jobs.” (05:08–05:17)

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