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NYC politics
fromPolitics NY
2 days ago

Campaign Insiders: A Q&A with AD-66 Candidate Furhan Ahmad

Campaign focuses on affordability and stability through expanded healthcare access, safer neighborhoods via mental health crisis response, and housing protections for seniors, families, and LGBTQ+ youth.
NYC LGBT
fromAdvocate.com
2 months ago

Trans trailblazer Andrea Jenkins on her history-making political career in Minneapolis

Andrea Jenkins made history as the first out transgender Black woman elected to public office in the U.S. and accomplished significant reforms during her tenure.
NYC politics
fromFox News
2 months ago

Mamdani moves to sideline NYC police with new safety office under sweeping overhaul

NYC Mayor Mamdani creates Office of Community Safety to centralize public safety programs, shifting focus from policing to prevention and community support services.
NYC politics
fromNewsday
2 months ago

Mayor Zohran Mamdani seeks to overhaul how NYPD handles mental crisis calls

Mayor Mamdani is creating a $260 million mayoral Office of Community Safety to oversee NYPD responses to mental health crises, gun crimes, hate crimes, and domestic violence, falling short of his campaign promise for a $1.1 billion Department of Community Safety.
New York City
fromwww.cnn.com
7 months ago

Mamdani takes a risk, courts NYPD Commissioner Tisch in public without certainty she will keep the job

Zohran Mamdani publicly offered to retain NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch without privately speaking to her, tying her retention to his community-focused public safety agenda.
fromThe Oaklandside
7 months ago

Oakland's MACRO non-emergency response team gets $1M in state support

MACRO is a team of trained, unarmed civilians who respond to non-emergency 911 calls, providing assistance to residents in the form of medical and mental health support and connections to social services. The program is intended to reduce the use of police, freeing up officers to address violent crime and more serious emergencies.
East Bay (California)
fromABC7 San Francisco
8 months ago

WATCH LIVE AT 11A: San Ramon community leaders to discuss brazen $1 million jewelry store heist

SAN RAMON, Calif. (KGO) -- San Ramon community leaders are pushing for public safety reform and accountability from elected officials after a brazen jewelry heist that happened in the middle of the day. They are holding a press conference outside the Heller Jewelry store on Thursday at 11 a.m. RELATED: Why is California seeing 'unheard of' surge in violent jewelry shop robberies? On Monday afternoon, nearly 25 suspects, at least three of them armed, stormed Heller Jewelers at City Center Bishop Ranch.
California
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