Overview

• On Monday, Mamdani issued a condolence post from Uganda mourning four victims and NYPD officer Didarul Islam after a mass shooting in Midtown Manhattan.
• Facing criticism over his 2020 calls to defund the NYPD, he reiterated that he would not dismantle the department and pledged to work with police.
• He unveiled a plan for a standalone Department of Community Safety to deploy social workers and free up NYPD resources for major crime investigations.
• Andrew Cuomo and other rivals have seized on Mamdani’s past anti-police tweets to question his readiness to oversee public safety in the November election.
• Recent polling by Zenith Research and Public Progress Solutions shows Mamdani leading the five-way general election field with roughly 50 percent support.