{"id":45480,"date":"2025-11-20T00:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T00:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/45480\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T00:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T00:38:08","slug":"zohran-mamdani-now-says-nypd-should-respond-to-domestic-violence-incidents-backtracking-on-past-controversial-statements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/45480\/","title":{"rendered":"Zohran Mamdani now says NYPD should respond to domestic violence incidents, backtracking on past controversial statements"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani now says the NYPD should be responsible for responding to domestic violence incidents, backtracking Wednesday on his past controversial comments<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The socialist Queens assemblyman\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat has not been part of the proposal we have put forward over the course of the campaign,\u201d Mamdani said when asked <\/a>by a reporter whether his proposed new Department of Community Safety would handle such 911 calls.<\/p>\n

\"NewNew York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch appeared for the time together Wednesday since she accepted the job to stay on as top cop. AP<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we did say is it\u2019s untenable for officers to be asked to respond to 200,000 mental health calls that are received every year.\u201d <\/p>\n

Mamdani, 34, caught flak during the mayoral campaign over a resurfaced podcast interview<\/a> from 2020 in which he said that cops shouldn\u2019t respond to domestic violence reports out of fear of \u201cescalation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf somebody is surviving, going through\u00a0domestic violence\u00a0\u2013 there are so many different, different situations that would far better be handled by people trained to deal with those specific situations as opposed to an individual with a gun who has received quite a limited amount of training in general, but also in regards to these specific situations,\u201d\u00a0he said on the \u00a0Immigrantly podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The democratic socialist\u2019s signature public safety campaign platform has been to create the Dept. of Community Safety that would overhaul how the city responds to homelessness and mental health issues<\/a> by shifting away from cops being first responders on those calls.<\/p>\n

\"NewMamdani said Wednesday that the NYPD should respond to domestic violence calls. AP<\/p>\n

He has proposed slashing the NYPD\u2019s overtime budget to cover the tab for the agency. But the real-world rollout of the new $1.1 billion apparatus has been unclear, as has what resources, if any, would also be taken from the NYPD.<\/p>\n

Mamdani\u2019s reversal on domestic violence calls came after he appeared with Tisch, just hours after The Post broke news<\/a> that the top cop would stay on the job despite the two being markedly opposed on a number of issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani now says the NYPD should be responsible for responding to domestic violence incidents, backtracking Wednesday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5302,57,9,24,55,54,56,103,58,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-45480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-jessica-tisch","9":"tag-metro","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-city-news","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nypd","16":"tag-us-news","17":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}