"Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch used a City Council budget hearing Wednesday to signal how the NYPD plans to operate under Mayor Zohran Mamdani, telling lawmakers that a proposed Department of Community Safety would affect only a small share of police calls and that ongoing discussions about the Strategic Response Group are not to disband the unit but concern the future of how we police protests generally."
"Out of roughly 4.3 million calls for service, she said, about 123,000 were mental health-related and about 85,793 nonviolent calls might qualify for diversion under the city's existing framework—about 2% of the department's call volume."
"In early February, after the NYPD shooting of Jabez Chakraborty in Queens, Mamdani said the city should speed creation of the department, casting the case as evidence that mental health crises should not default to police response."
During a City Council budget hearing on March 18, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch outlined how the NYPD would operate under Mayor Zohran Mamdani's administration. Tisch presented data showing that of approximately 4.3 million annual calls for service, only about 123,000 were mental health-related and roughly 85,793 nonviolent calls might qualify for diversion to a proposed Department of Community Safety—representing approximately 2% of total call volume. She emphasized that ongoing discussions about the Strategic Response Group concern the future approach to protest policing rather than unit disbandment. Mayor Mamdani has advocated for accelerating the Department of Community Safety's creation, citing a February police shooting in Queens as evidence that mental health crises warrant alternative response mechanisms.
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