Zohran Mamdani: “The vision that we've put forward in this campaign is not to…”

“Over the course of this race, I've been very clear about my view of public safety and the critical role that police have officers are tasked with delivering while we ask them to respond to nearly every failure of the social safety net. And The vision that we've put forward in this campaign is not to defund the police. It is in fact to allow those officers to respond to these serious crimes that many of them signed up to address and to do so by ensuring that we …” (08:14–08:21)

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