Zohran Mamdani: “In 2020, the police response time was a little less than 11…”

“This would mean that we would ensure that police officers could do police work and that we'd have mental health professionals responding to the mental health crisis. You know, In 2020, the police response time was a little less than 11 minutes. Today, it's closer to 16 minutes. Part of that is because we're asking officers to deal with 200,000 mental health calls a year.” (10:23–10:30)

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