Posted on 11/20/2025 6:42:13 AM PST by Red Badger
Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Socialist (communist) mayor-elect of New York City, is already walking back his completely insane plan to replace police with social workers in response to certain crimes.
It was never a realistic idea to begin with. It was an effort on his part to appeal to the ‘defund the police’ wing of the Democrat party, of which Mamdani is himself a member.
The truth is that police never really know what kind of dangerous situation they might be walking into, even on the most routine calls.
The New York Post reports:
Zohran Mamdani now says NYPD should respond to domestic violence incidents, backtracking on past controversial statements
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani now says the NYPD should be responsible for responding to domestic violence incidents, backtracking Wednesday on his past controversial comments.
The socialist Queens assemblyman’s about-face came as he appeared publicly for the first time with his newly-announced Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, who will stay on in her role in the incoming administration.
“That has not been part of the proposal we have put forward over the course of the campaign,” Mamdani said when asked by a reporter whether his proposed new Department of Community Safety would handle such 911 calls.
“What we did say is it’s untenable for officers to be asked to respond to 200,000 mental health calls that are received every year.”
Mamdani, 34, caught flak during the mayoral campaign over a resurfaced podcast interview from 2020 in which he said that cops shouldn’t respond to domestic violence reports out of fear of “escalation.”
Just a few days ago, the New York Post reported that a similar rime response pilot program is already failing:
The early results of a program dubbed B-HEARD spell trouble for Mamdani’s proposed $1.1 billion Department of Community Safety (DCS), a signature initiative that his newly announced chief of staff and left-hand woman, Elle Bisgaard-Church, helped craft.
B-HEARD launched in 2021 as a pilot program and only operates in some city neighborhoods, but a bleak audit conducted in May by the city comptroller found it was limping — with a whopping 60% of calls deemed ineligible while more than 35% of eligible calls from mental health professionals never got a response.
“Calls were considered potentially dangerous, were ineligible because a mental health professional was already at the scene, or were unable to be triaged because FDNY EMS did not take the call or all necessary information could not be collected about the person in distress,” the comptroller’s office wrote in a news release at the time.
Who in their right mind thinks a program like this would work?
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He’ll just do it secretly and not tell anyone ,LOL
You don’t say!
Why not just send leftist politicians and activists? They are omnipotent and know everything.
If he walks back - or even is perceived as walking back - his radically insane Socialist policies - his supporters are going to go nuts.
Of course he could actually turn out, at least, at first to be much more moderate than advertised so they can say that everything said about him is just “Right Wing Propaganda”.
But then behind the scenes is where the radical agenda comes.
LOL @ THE CARTOON!
D3ms wont care what he does or if he keeps his word or not- none of that matters to them- all thw5 matte43d t9 them was that he was a comunist and a supporter of those who attacked us on 9/11. Liberalism is a mentwl disorder that unfortunately is dangerous to the nation
They already are.......................
A shooting in progress indicates that someone is agitated, they should send two social workers to try and understand the root causes of the why the guy, or guys, are acting out.
good for him.
Trump walks back on things all the time. It’s normal.
Again, we act like this guy is the debil and the alternative is a savior. When, in fact, every mayor after Giuliani has been commie rat.
EVs will be replaced with Ubercamels.
It took a genius to figure that one out?
Besides, they are not badly needed for other duties.
As main objective is to turn NYC into the next Mecca shithole.
On his deathbed, at least Jesse Jackson can die in the knowledge that it’s no longer “Hymietown”
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
One of Eric Adam’s better decisions was to hire the competent Jessica Tish as Police Commissioner.
Mamdani did the right thing in asking her to stay on. I hope he let’s her do her job and stays out of the way.
I wouldn’t trust a thing this man says - If I were NYPD, I’d take up DeSantis’s offer of a $5k signing bonus for cops that transfer to Florida.
Seems Madman Mamdani is backtracking on a number of things...
BREAKING: “A desperate Zohran Mamdani stuns supporters by stating things can’t ACTUALLY be free, begging for MORE money to fund his ‘transition’ after $1M has been raised.”
— Revolver
Yes, it can be visually appealing with billions of dollars pouring into it. Economic jihad. The long war.
SHOCKED, I tell you...
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