Zohran Mamdani: “On January 5, we put a pause on [the prior administration's]…”

“And we made that determination because of their inability to connect New Yorkers with the kind of housing that was supposedly the rationale for what they were doing. So On January 5, we put a pause on [the prior administration's] policy. and we spent the time from then developing our own policy. And one of the major things we found is that the prior administration had made the NYPD primarily responsible …” (03:10–03:13)

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