"A lot of times for New Yorkers, what is experienced or understood as an example of social disorder is then tasked to the police as if it's their responsibility,"
"What we have ended up with is police officers responding to 200,000 mental-health calls a year, and that cannot be separated from the fact that response times have increased by 20 percent over the last few years, where now the average time is closer to 16 minutes."
"Evidence and outcomes have to be the North Star of our administration and frankly of any administration. What's frustrating is that we have evidence of approaches that work, but they are not operating at the scale that they could be."
Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old mayoral candidate, proposes criminal-justice reforms and innovations to address gang violence and subway disorder involving homeless people. He characterizes many examples of social disorder as being inappropriately tasked to police, citing police responses to 200,000 mental-health calls annually and a 20 percent increase in response times to about 16 minutes. He proposes a billion-dollar Department of Community Safety to handle non-emergency calls, house violence-interrupter and crisis-management programs, and expand the B-HEARD program to dispatch counselors with police on low-risk emergency calls. He centers policy decisions on evidence and measurable outcomes.
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