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Zohran Mamdani: “I am not defunding the police. I am not running to defund…”

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Zohran Mamdani Addresses New York City Mass Shooting and Public Safety Policies

Published July 30, 2025 | Video Starts at 35:20

And exactly with those statements, could you help clarify and help explain why you said what you said and what you hope to say in the future? To be very clear, as I have been over the course of this campaign, I am not defunding the police. I am not running to defund the police. Andrew Cuomo is far more comfortable living his life in the past and then attacking tweets of 2020 than in running against the campaign that we have been leading for the last eight months. (35:20–35:24)

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Zohran Mamdani Addresses New York City Mass Shooting and Public Safety Policies | Uploaded July 30, 2025 | 12:42-12:45
“In the first quarter of this year, we were only able to resolve 35% of all of those crimes that were reported.”
Zohran Mamdani Addresses New York City Mass Shooting and Public Safety Policies | Uploaded July 30, 2025 | 13:09-13:16
“New Yorkers were able to see through that and elect me as the Democratic nominee with the most votes in the history of New York City mayoral…”
Zohran Mamdani Addresses New York City Mass Shooting and Public Safety Policies | Uploaded July 30, 2025 | 17:28-17:37
“Today, the NYPD receives around 200,000 mental health calls a year.”
Zohran Mamdani Addresses New York City Mass Shooting and Public Safety Policies | Uploaded July 30, 2025 | 32:56-33:01
“Officer Islam was a member of the Bangladeshi American Police association.”
Zohran Mamdani Addresses New York City Mass Shooting and Public Safety Policies | Uploaded July 30, 2025 | 00:27-00:37
“We grieve the loss and the murder of four New Yorkers.”
Zohran Mamdani Addresses New York City Mass Shooting and Public Safety Policies | Uploaded July 30, 2025 | 02:20-02:26
“Millions of New Yorkers are praying for [those recuperating in hospital].”
Zohran Mamdani Addresses New York City Mass Shooting and Public Safety Policies | Uploaded July 30, 2025 | 02:30-02:32
“No matter how strong our gun laws are in this state, we are only as safe as the weakest laws in this nation.”
Zohran Mamdani Addresses New York City Mass Shooting and Public Safety Policies | Uploaded July 30, 2025 | 04:57-05:07
“I echo the call from Governor Hochul for a nationwide ban on assault rifles.”
Zohran Mamdani Addresses New York City Mass Shooting and Public Safety Policies | Uploaded July 30, 2025 | 05:21-05:28
“A man with such documented mental health struggles was able to purchase a weapon.”
Zohran Mamdani Addresses New York City Mass Shooting and Public Safety Policies | Uploaded July 30, 2025 | 05:33-05:39
“Mass shootings are sadly, all too familiar for New Yorkers themselves.”
Zohran Mamdani Addresses New York City Mass Shooting and Public Safety Policies | Uploaded July 30, 2025 | 06:22-06:27
“The vision that we've put forward in this campaign is not to defund the police.”
Zohran Mamdani Addresses New York City Mass Shooting and Public Safety Policies | Uploaded July 30, 2025 | 08:14-08:21
“The city has come to rely upon the Strategic Response Group as its primary means of response to acts of protests.”
Zohran Mamdani Addresses New York City Mass Shooting and Public Safety Policies | Uploaded July 30, 2025 | 08:51-08:59
“That decision [to use the Strategic Response Group for protests] has led to the violation of a number of New Yorkers' civil rights.”
Zohran Mamdani Addresses New York City Mass Shooting and Public Safety Policies | Uploaded July 30, 2025 | 09:02-09:17
“A leading cause of [officers leaving] is forced overtime.”
Zohran Mamdani Addresses New York City Mass Shooting and Public Safety Policies | Uploaded July 30, 2025 | 12:44-12:48
“To be the mayor of this city is to work closely with law enforcement to deliver that public safety.”
Zohran Mamdani Addresses New York City Mass Shooting and Public Safety Policies | Uploaded July 30, 2025 | 14:58-15:04
“We are still home to a site of a senseless mass shooting.”
Zohran Mamdani Addresses New York City Mass Shooting and Public Safety Policies | Uploaded July 30, 2025 | 16:17-16:21
“One of the leading causes [officers] cite [for leaving] is forced overtime.”
Zohran Mamdani Addresses New York City Mass Shooting and Public Safety Policies | Uploaded July 30, 2025 | 21:15-21:15
“New York City is a city that is proud of its history with protests and its exercise of the First Amendment.”
Zohran Mamdani Addresses New York City Mass Shooting and Public Safety Policies | Uploaded July 30, 2025 | 27:24-27:30
“We do not settle for misconduct lawsuit after misconduct lawsuit as it pertains to protests and the policing of those protests.”
Zohran Mamdani Addresses New York City Mass Shooting and Public Safety Policies | Uploaded July 30, 2025 | 27:55-28:05
“There is a need to ensure that every act we take is one that is actually delivering public safety.”
Zohran Mamdani Addresses New York City Mass Shooting and Public Safety Policies | Uploaded July 30, 2025 | 28:15-28:21
“Officer Islam's family did not bring up the former governor in the time that I spent with them.”
Zohran Mamdani Addresses New York City Mass Shooting and Public Safety Policies | Uploaded July 30, 2025 | 28:50-28:57
“I was originally scheduled to return this morning to depart Uganda on 29 July as the shooting.”
Zohran Mamdani Addresses New York City Mass Shooting and Public Safety Policies | Uploaded July 30, 2025 | 28:58-29:11
“My team and I looked into earlier possible travel back to New York City and found, in fact, that our originally scheduled trip was still the…”
Zohran Mamdani Addresses New York City Mass Shooting and Public Safety Policies | Uploaded July 30, 2025 | 29:13-29:26
“Calling for a reduction in overtime is a call that nearly every candidate has made over the course of this campaign, and even Mayor Adams…”
Zohran Mamdani Addresses New York City Mass Shooting and Public Safety Policies | Uploaded July 30, 2025 | 29:58-30:16
“Many officers who are leaving the department, of which we see 200 every single month, cite forced overtime as a reason that they depart.”
Zohran Mamdani Addresses New York City Mass Shooting and Public Safety Policies | Uploaded July 30, 2025 | 30:31-30:42
“The Department of Community Safety would not replace the work of the NYPD. It would be done in tandem with the NYPD.”
Zohran Mamdani Addresses New York City Mass Shooting and Public Safety Policies | Uploaded July 30, 2025 | 31:26-31:34
“Andrew Cuomo is far more comfortable living his life in the past and then attacking tweets of 2020 than in running against the campaign that…”
Zohran Mamdani Addresses New York City Mass Shooting and Public Safety Policies | Uploaded July 30, 2025 | 35:26-35:39
“The tweet that you refer to is a tweet that is out of step with the way in which I not only view police officers, the immense work that they…”
Zohran Mamdani Addresses New York City Mass Shooting and Public Safety Policies | Uploaded July 30, 2025 | 35:39-36:05
“Our politics too often creates incentives to spend moments of mourning discussing other candidates, when, in fact, many of these victims…”
Zohran Mamdani Addresses New York City Mass Shooting and Public Safety Policies | Uploaded July 30, 2025 | 36:46-37:01