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New York City Democratic Meorel Nominee Zoharan Mamdani said on Monday that social workers and other non-police professionals such as “transit ambassadors” should handle some 911 calls.
The status of a case on law enforcement and public safety took the center stage after a large -scale shooting in Manhattan on 28 July, killing four people, including a police officer. In the light of tragic shooting, Mamdani’s critics began to bang him for the previous comments for blaming the police in New York City.
Mamdani was once again asked about his views for crime and public safety at a press conference with Sen Elizabeth Warren, D-Mas, when he offered his views.
“I have said time and time again that whatever decision I take in relation to NYPD will work backwards from the result of public safety and public safety, we know, this is a one who comes from listening to the authorities himself,” Mamdani said on Monday.
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Zohran Mamdani speaks during the NYC mayorl debate on 24 June 2025, as policing raises questions on his views. (Getty)
Self-known socialist candidate cited “forced overtime” as a major reason for the decision of several police officers of New York City, given that NYPD officers receive around 200,000 emergency calls related to a mental health crisis every year.
“The fact is that every year we ask them to take additional responsibilities – we are making them more and more difficult for them to respond to a lot of responsibilities, which attract him for a job at first,” Mammadani argued. “New Yorkers have the right concern around public safety, and I want to empower police officers to respond to serious crime and to appoint mental health professionals to mental health professionals.”
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Zoharan Mamdani has been criticized for calling the police in 2020 amid public safety and crime proposals, which he is emphasizing as a candidate for the Mayor. (Susan Watts/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service through Getty Image)
To further explain the issue, Mammadani pointed to a fictional event involving a distressed tourist, forcing the arguments to use resources to respond to these calls, but it may end if the city was to appoint “transit ambassadors”.
“This forced overtime is something we can expect. It is not surprising. It is so important to ask that we are making these officers,” Mamdani told reporters, in response to questions about their proposal to help reduce law enforce overtime.
“When we ensure that it is not an officer, who has to stand in the middle of the Times Square Subway Station and answer a question from a tourist about which the exit works, and which escalators can take, and what line they are running with or without delay, but that we have a really transit ambassador, such as the official can focus on serious crime, it starts to focus on the time of that type of time Which reduces the type of time that reduces that type of balloon. “
Zoharan Mamdani joined the campaign trail by Sen Elizabeth Warren on August 4, 2025 in New York City. (Fox 5 New York)
Meanwhile, during a podcast appearance in 2020, the same year Mammadani called his now infamous social media post to define NYPD, the socialist candidate for the mayor also suggested that the police should not respond to domestic violence calls.
“If someone is alive, going through domestic violence -there are many different, different conditions that will be better handed over by trained people to deal with specific situations, opposite a person with a gun, which has generally received limited amounts of training,” Mamdani said at that time.
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In response to the call for Mamdani social activists, not to the police officers, the reply to some 911 calls related to mental health crises, the supporting mayor Eric Adams, who himself was a former NYPD captain, called the idea “non -extended” and “careless”.
According to CBS News, Adams criticized the Mamdani’s public safety platform, saying, “When you put citizens on the way to respond to a domestic violence incident, it is irresponsible and it is careless.”
Zoharan Mamdani’s plan to replace the police with social workers for some 911 calls has been described as “irresponsible” and “careless” by NYC Mayor Eric Adams. (Getty image)
According to the New York Times, Mamdani’s 17-pest public safety plan earlier this year, amid the race to be a Democratic Party candidate earlier this year, deviated several primary opponents, in which he did not imagine hiring more officials according to the New York Times. Rather, according to their plan, Mamdani will work to create the Community Security Department aimed at expanding the mental health teams and other non-law enforcement personnel that can respond to some 911 calls.
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According to the Times, Mamdani’s proposal also spoke to the NYPD’s overtime budget and its task force responsible for protesting.
Former Government of New York. Released your public safety forum On Monday, the call to increase the number of officers on the strength of NYPD is around 5,000.
The Democratic Party is running as an independent after losing to the Mamdani in the primary, Kuomom wants to increase the payment of the officer and improve the profit and access to the pension for retired officers.
