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Mayor Zohran Mamdani has made barely any headway on his key campaign promise to pull cops off of mental health-related 911 calls, his NYPD boss revealed Monday.
Staff in the so-called Mayor’s Office of Community Safety – a scaled-down initiative from the entirely new department that Hizzoner promised on the campaign trail last year – have yet to talk with NYPD officials, said Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch.
“Those conversations have not yet commenced,” Tisch said, when asked during a City Council hearing if the NYPD has discussed any policy changes with the Office of Community Safety.

“Nothing is planned at this time to be shifted,” Tisch said of police funding or staffing when pressed by Council Speaker Julie Menin about NYPD cuts to cover the new office.
The top cop’s blunt answers further exposed the so-far anticlimactic rollout of Mamdani’s much-hyped “Department of Community Safety.”
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Then-candidate Mamdani had promised to create a brand new agency, with a $1.1 billion price tag, that would reshape the way the city responds to 911 calls.
Social workers would respond to non-violent emergencies instead of NYPD cops, Mamdani envisioned.
He argued that doing so would free up an overburdened police force to focus on fighting crime, rather than patch holes in the city’s social safety net.
But Mamdani’s often detail-free plan drew fire from many public safety experts, cops and pols – who argued it’d add unnecessary bureaucracy to calls that the NYPD will end up responding to anyway.
After Mamdani became mayor, the chatter over the proposed department largely died down until March – when Hizzoner rolled out a lite version of his original plan.

The new “Mayor’s Office of Community Safety” would have just two staffers and a pared-down, though still whopping, budget of $260 million to fulfill Mamdani’s vision.
As Tisch conceded no serious talks have unfolded between the new office and the NYPD, she noted no program is being shifted from the police department.
“I expect that those conversations will begin to occur, but… we haven’t had strategic conversations about what’s going to shift from the NYPD to OCS, because nothing is planned at this time to be shifted,” she said.
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Asked Tuesday whether his new Deputy Mayor of Community Safety Renita Francois should have been in touch with Tisch and how he envisioned the office coordinating with the NYPD in the future, Mamdani said that the two agencies “share a goal of delivering public safety for New Yorkers.”
“We’ve been having a long standing conversation about the ways in which we can ensure that officers are able to focus on the serious crimes that they signed up to respond to, and that we can have an Office of Community Safety that can start to build out our city’s response to the mental health crisis…,” he told reporters during an unrelated press conference in Queens.
The two are set to meet sometime this week, he noted, calling the previously scheduled sitdown “one part of the building of that collaboration between the two.”
“However, I think you can see whether it be in the ways in which we combat gun violence, or the ways in which we respond to an incidence of mental health crisis, that there is room for that collaboration,” he continued. “We’re excited for that to grow.”
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