Brian Lair on WNYC. So one of Mayor Zeranmanani's key campaign promises is beginning to take shape.

When he was a candidate, many of you know this, he talked about the

need for what he called a Department of Community Safety. That's in addition to the NYPD.

Here he is back in June of last year in the WNYC Democratic primary debate.

When I put together our proposal for the Department of Community Safety, it was built upon

the many conversations I had with rank and file officers who had told me that they signed

up to join the department to take on serious crimes.

And yet what they were being asked to do is play the roles of mental health professionals

and social workers.

And that is part of the reason why 65% of crimes in the first quarter of this year are still not solved.

We need to ensure police can focus on those crimes and we have mental health professionals and social workers

to address and tackle and resolve the mental health crisis and homelessness.

So the basic argument let the train mental health professionals and social

workers respond to some emergency situations and free up the NYPD to respond to more serious

violent crime. And that may be closer to the materializing, at least in an early form. Last

week, the mayor signed an executive order to establish an office of community

safety, office, that's a lower level thing than a full-fledged department. We'll talk about why.

The budget for it is also a lot smaller than what he was first talking about in the campaign,

but we're going to talk about all of that now and what this

department or office of community safety might actually do compared to what Mamdani said

as a candidate on the campaign trail. And one related thing that will also touch on,

a big story you may have missed last week is that NYPD Commissioner Jessica

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