Zohran Mamdani: “The mental health crisis is one of the major challenges in…”

“What I am proposing is something that will address the needs of New Yorkers in the present. We speak and hear from New Yorkers across the five boroughs who outline how The mental health crisis is one of the major challenges in this city. And yet what we have in our city is asking those same police officers who are being asked to respond to shootings, respond to murders, to also respond to these calls.” (54:29–54:33)

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