Zohran Mamdani: “Response times have increased by 20% over the last few…”

“And what we have ended up with is police Officers responding to 200,000 mental health calls a year. And that cannot be separated from the fact that Response times have increased by 20% over the last few years, where now the average time is closer to 16 minutes. Sure. Well, I want to come back to that in a minute, but I'm struck by. Well, let's talk for a minute about disorder or the perception of this disorder, its relationship to crime that does not involve, say, the mentally ill.” (07:26–07:33)

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