Zohran Mamdani: “The number of 911 calls have gone up by 37% in the last…”

“And part of this is because we're asking those same officers who are supposed to respond to a 911 call about a shooting to also respond to 200,000 mental health calls a year. The number of 911 calls have gone up by 37% in the last decade. It's just untenable to ask cops to do all of this thing, all of these things. And we look elsewhere in the country, There are examples of police departments that took mental health out of the department's purview.” (33:37–33:42)

This is an excerpt from a raw transcript. The assertions have not been audited or verified. Tap the video to view the source footage and understand the context.