The use of deadly physical force and the civilanization of the NYPD.

Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories

True Crime, Military, Law Enforcement, Crime

4.4 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

New York City in 2025 is a paradox. On one hand, the city is seeing murders and shootings fall to near-historic lows. On the other, major felonies are still well above pre-pandemic levels, and for many New Yorkers, the city just doesn't feel as safe. This is the complex reality facing Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, who won a surprise victory on a democratic-socialist platform focused on affordability and a new approach to public safety. And his response is one of the most ambitious public safety experiments in American history.

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0:00.0	Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to Police Off the Cuff. Real Crime Stories. I'm your host,
0:07.7	retired NYPD, Sergeant Bill Cannon, a 27-year veteran of the NYPD. You know, we've been examining
0:16.2	some of the new policies that have yet to be put into action,
0:23.1	but are the planned policies of Mayor-elect Mamdami,
0:31.3	who takes office in January.
0:33.8	Some of these policies are quite controversial, and some of these policies don't, in my opinion, leave the civilian population safe.
0:50.4	And some of these policies include using civilians to, in the place of police, to respond to many different types of jobs.
1:02.6	For example, emotionally disturbed persons, which is one of the most dangerous jobs that the police respond to.
1:13.4	You never know if this person is violent or will get violent when confronted by another
1:22.3	human being.
1:23.6	And the police are trained to deal with that.
1:27.1	Am I against the involvement of civilians and social workers?
1:31.5	No.
1:32.4	Am I against their involvement as the sole responders to these jobs?
1:36.9	Yes.
1:37.9	I think it's extremely dangerous.
1:40.6	I think we're going to have a lot of dead and injured civilians,
1:48.1	civilian social workers, that respond to this job.
2:07.1	And just very recently, there was an indication or there was a job on the Upper East side where an individual was acting quite erratically and he was confronted by police officers. And as a result, the police officers from the 19th precinct had to use deadly physical force
2:15.6	in order to mitigate this situation.
2:23.3	So the police used deadly physical force, which is used only as a last resort, but the police
2:33.8	will use force commensurate with the force being used
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