Zohran Mamdani: “In one year alone, the NYPD receives 200,000 mental health…”

“We used to ask officers to focus on serious crimes. Now we're asking them to focus also on the mental health crisis, to focus also on homelessness. In one year alone, the NYPD receives 200,000 mental health calls. One year. Yeah. And you know what they told me? That one out of three of those, the person has, they're very, very dangerous interactions. You're gonna send a social worker in.” (14:00–14:06)

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