Zohran Mamdani: “The New York Times did an investigation on a thousand…”

“He would actually be getting services from the first time that he was arrested, as opposed to having to go through them 33 times. If you look at The New York Times did an investigation on a thousand different incidents of violent crime in the city tied to mental health episodes. They found that so many of those same New Yorkers were failed by the interactions they had with the city when they went for help for mental health assistance.” (11:31–11:40)

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