Zohran Mamdani: “We put forward a proposal to create a Department of…”

“And that's true for the department, which now has hundreds of thousands of those calls they deal with a year. So we've We put forward a proposal to create a Department of Community Safety that would focus on the mental health crisis and gun violence. scaling up evidence based policies that have already worked in the city and across the country, and allowing police to focus on serious crimes and ensuring that they can resolve …” (06:03–06:24)

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