"Mayor Zohran Mamdani will sign an executive order on Thursday to create an Office of Community Safety and install a deputy mayor to lead it. The new office will oversee a number of existing New York City programs that work to prevent violence and respond to mental health emergencies, according to documents reviewed by Gothamist as well as a City Hall source who is familiar with the order but not authorized to speak publicly."
"During the campaign, Mamdani said he hoped such a department would allow 911 operators to divert more emergency calls usually handled by police to social workers and other non-law enforcement officials. Through a program called B-HEARD, the city already dispatches non-law enforcement responders to some emergency health calls. Mamdani vowed to increase the number of those calls through the creation of the Department of Community Safety."
"The office will include the Division of Neighborhood Safety, the Office to Prevent Gun Violence and the Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes, among other groups, according to the source and an organizational chart reviewed by Gothamist. Those programs already have about $260 million in funding, according to the source."
Mayor Zohran Mamdani will sign an executive order establishing an Office of Community Safety led by deputy mayor Renita Francois, who previously worked in the de Blasio administration's Office of Criminal Justice. The office consolidates existing city programs including the Division of Neighborhood Safety, Office to Prevent Gun Violence, and Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes, which collectively have approximately $260 million in funding. This initiative fulfills Mamdani's campaign promise to create a Department of Community Safety designed to divert emergency calls from police to social workers and non-law enforcement responders, expanding the existing B-HEARD program that currently handles some emergency health calls.
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