Details apparently aren’t Hiz department.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani pushed his vague “Department of Community Safety” again on Tuesday after the NYPD’s recent shooting of a mentally ill Queens man – but couldn’t say how the newfangled agency would’ve responded.
The cops’ chaotic confrontation with Jabez Chakraborty — a schizophrenic 22-year-old whom NYPD officers shot and injured Jan. 26 after he allegedly waved a knife at them — only highlighted the urgent need for a different mental health response system, Hizzoner argued.
Read more at https://nypost.com/2026/02/03/us-news/mamdani-pushes-for-department-of-community-safety-after-nypds-shooting-of-mentally-ill-man-but-dodges-on-details/
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