While being interviewed on a podcast in 2020, New York City communist and Democrat nominee for mayor, Zohran Mamdani said that the NYPD should not respond to incidents of domestic violence, while also claiming that the city’s police force often unfairly targets people of color.
If Mamdani is somehow elected mayor of the city, how exactly is he going to work with the NYPD after being on record saying such things?
The thinking Mamdani expressed here is the same mentality behind the left’s push to defund the police, one of the dumbest and most dangerous political moves in recent history.
The Washington Free Beacon broke the story:
Zohran Mamdani Called To Stop Sending Cops to People ‘Going Through Domestic Violence’
Socialist New York City mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani said during a 2020 podcast appearance that he did not believe calling the police was an appropriate response to domestic violence, an issue which the New York Police Department (NYPD) dealt with more than 100,000 times in 2024.
Mamdani made the previously unreported comments as part of a wide-ranging denunciation of the NYPD during an appearance on the Immigrantly podcast in July 2020.
“If somebody is jaywalking, if somebody is surviving, going through domestic violence—there are so many different, different situations that would be far better handled by people trained to deal with those specific situations, as opposed to an individual with a gun,” Mamdani said.
The revelation comes as Mamdani runs on a mayoral platform that would replace police with “crisis responders” in “mental health” cases. Mamdani’s policy memo does not define such cases, and his campaign representatives did not respond to repeated requests for comment on whether he would prevent the police from responding to reports of domestic violence.
Listen to the clip below:
AUDIO: Last year, the NYPD responded to tens of thousands of domestic violence incidents. Socialist New York City mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani wants that number to fall to zero—or at least he did in 2020.
At that time Mamdani appeared on the Immigrantly podcast, where he… pic.twitter.com/HmVSiCFOKm
— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) July 11, 2025
What Mamdani is proposing is utter lunacy and the people of New York City would be much less safe under such policies. Defunding and demoralizing the police was a disaster everywhere it was tried.
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