New York City democrat socialist mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani told an audience of New York Police Department officers Tuesday night that he would, if elected, spare them from responding to most mental health calls, the Daily News reported.

Instead, Mamdani’s public safety platform pitches the launch of a Department of Community Safety agency that would respond to mental health crises.

“We must stop asking them to respond to nearly every single failure of the social safety net,” Mamdani said at Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza. “We must stop making it impossible for them to do their jobs by asking them to do every other job we can think of.”

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