Overview

• Mamdani told reporters he is not running to defund the police and said he will maintain current NYPD officer levels.
• He unveiled a plan to create a Department of Community Safety to dispatch trained civilians to mental health crises and nonviolent emergencies.
• On July 30, he met in New York with the families of Officer Didarul Islam and three other victims of the city’s deadliest mass shooting in 25 years.
• Andrew Cuomo and Eric Adams have seized on his past calls to defund the NYPD to question his commitment to public safety.
• His campaign has shifted to balancing democratic socialist reforms with traditional policing priorities in a general election field defined by progressive and moderate divisions.