Zohran Mamdani: “Crime has been dropping and that we continue to need to do…”

“Now, we know that there is more corruption to be uprooted in that same department. We know that that is a result of Eric Adams leadership. And we've also seen that Crime has been dropping and that we continue to need to do more work to ensure that we increase the clearance rates within the department, which in the first quarter of this year were 35%. And I believe that we can increase them by creating the Department of Community Safety, where we ask police to do less so that they can deliver more.” (13:51–14:02)

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