Zohran Mamdani: “We can see the results of [relying on police for social…”

“Yet what we're doing right now is relying on them for almost every failure of the social safety net, a reliance which is preventing them from doing their actual jobs. And We can see the results of [relying on police for social safety net failures] in our inability to increase our clearance rates for the major seven categories of crime. And so what we've put forward as a proposal is to create a Department of Community Safety that would tackle the mental health crisis, homelessness, gun violence, hate violence and victim services.” (04:59–05:06)

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