Zohran Mamdani: “We are actively exploring many policy options with the North…”

“Someone with a knife, mental health condition. What does that look like as far as a response in your Department of Community Safety? So We are actively exploring many policy options with the North Star of keeping everyone safe. That includes the affected individual, the family, police officers, any other responding city personnel. And what these policy options include are various co response models involving teams of behavioral health …” (39:16–39:23)

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