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Zohran Mamdani: “Police [are] fielding 200,000 mental health calls a year.”

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Published June 30, 2025 | Video Starts at 07:41

… their frustration with signing up to join the police force to tackle serious crimes and then being asked to play the roles of mental health professionals and social workers and Police [are] fielding 200,000 mental health calls a year. And ultimately, my desire is for the police to be able to focus on those serious crimes, to be able to do their jobs by stopping, asking them to respond to nearly every failure of the social safety net. (07:41–08:06)

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Asserts that police handle 200,000 mental health-related calls annually.

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