One of the signature proposals of Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign is the creation of a Department of Community Safety that would address a variety of pressing public safety issues with new, improved and expanded civilian and community-led responses. The proposal contains five programmatic areas that would address gun violence, subway safety, mental health crises, public homelessness, and hate crimes.

Throughout the campaign, one of the recurring attacks from his opponents has been that Mamdani’s proposals are too radical, out of step with best practice and impractical to fund and implement. In this area, however, it is clear that Mamdani’s ideas are well-grounded in existing best practices across the country and here in New York City and that there is broad support for many of them

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