New York Mamdani Town Hall candidate has verified endowment requests to NYPD

The candidate for the socialist town hall of New York, Zohran Mamdani, was struck by a “verification of the facts” of an expert in local crime on a position where the future potential mayor estimated the cause of the provision of the endowment of the New York police service.

“There is so much trouble with the post of @ zohrankmamdani here”, Rafael A. Mangual, principal scholarship holder and research manager for police and public security at the Manhattan Institute, Posted on X In response to Mamdani, who faced criticism for his repeated calls made to finance the NYPD.

Mamdani used the article, which was titled “Saiding Blue: Why does NYPD lose an average of 300 cops per month?” As an example of the reason why his police proposal for a “Ministry of Community Security” “will allow the police to make the jobs for which they really signed up”.

“Verification of the facts: this does not say that the cops are dissatisfied because the scope of their functions is too important,” said Mangual about the article that Mamdani cited.

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New York Democrat mayor’s candidate Zohran Mamdani spoke with supporters during a Canvass launch event at Prospect Park on Sunday, August 17, 2025. (Deirdre Heavey / Fox News Digital)

Mangual continued explaining that the reason why NYPD officers leave force “much more to do with the fact that” there are currently only 33,000 officers compared to the 40,000 people with whom the force was once endowed.

“There is no doubt that a more important force would be able to manage the current whole of the NYPD responsibilities if it was sufficiently endowed,” added the mangual thread.

Mangual has recognized that forced overtime is “certainly a problem” but that the solution to this problem is to hire more police officers rather than “reducing the scope” of what they do, as suggested by Mamdani’s campaign.

“So why not commit to bringing 7,000 more into the department?” Mangual asked. “Answer: because Mamdani does not want more cops.”

Mamdani Temperate his past support To finance the police service in July after an officer of the NYPD was shot in the worst mass shooting of the city in a quarter of a century, but expressed his desire to continue personally at his current level.

“Mamdani’s proposal should be considered for what it is: an expenditure initiative pretending to be compassionate relief,” said Mangual on X. “Let’s go real, Mamdani had the idea of ​​an agency ‘` alternative’ ‘Much before having abandoned his Vitrriolic opposition to Nypd and his support for his abolition. “

Mangual, in an interview with Fox News Digital earlier this month, warned that the NYPD “is approaching the Skeleton crew” at 33,000 officers, against 41,000 at the turn of the century.

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Mamdani faced criticism for his repeated calls made to finance the NYPD. (Getty Images)

“It is a very big change, especially given the additional number of the 911 that the department feeds on an annual basis and how much it has to do in a world after September 11 where the department has somehow taken these aspects of combating terrorism and additional intelligence,” said Mangual. “So you run the risk of creating a situation in which a department that is already hungry for recruits will become even more attractive for people who plan to work in this department.“”

Social workers and other non-political professionals such as “public transport ambassadors” should manage certain calls from 911 to facilitate NYPD workloads and improve the retention of officers, argued Mamdani on the campaign track.

“I have repeatedly said that each decision I make with regard to NYPD will work from a public security result and that public security, we know, that is also listening to the officers themselves,” said Mamdani earlier this month.

Mamdani cited “forced overtime” as a main cause for many police officers from New York City to leave their jobs, noting that NYPD officers receive around 200,000 emergency calls for a mental health crisis each year.

“The fact that each year, we ask them to assume additional responsibilities – we make them more and more difficult for them to respond to the very responsibilities that attracted them first,” said Mamdani. “New Yorkers rightly have concerns about public security, and I want to allow the police to respond to serious crimes and to hire mental health professionals to respond to mental health calls.”

In his thread on X, Mangual also challenged what he says is Mamdani’s assertion that armed violence is part of the failure of the “social security net”.

“So there is a huge problem with the premise of Mamdani, which is the following: armed violence is not a by-product of the failure of the safety net,” said Mangual. “Neither,” hatred violence “or any other type of violence, moreover.”

“The idea that people hurt others because they lack material resources is that which goes against the weight of a ton of evidence in the social sciences on the contrary. It is also incredibly insulting for the vast majority of poor New Yorkers, who have never considered a violent life of crime.”

New York Democrat mayor’s candidate Zohran Mamdani spoke with supporters during a Canvass launch event at Prospect Park on Sunday, August 17, 2025. (Deirdre Heavey / Fox News Digital)

Fox News Digital contacted the Mamdani campaign to comment.

Mangual told Fox News Digital that he was “important” to call “Mamdani because his public security platform” is based on particularly bad assumptions and fundamental misunderstandings on how and the reason why the police are carried out.

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“The underlying idea that the police should spend less time on” little things “so that they can focus on” big things “reflect a deep misunderstanding of reality that” big things “are often discovered via” little things “,” said Mangual.

“Example: Mamdani pleaded for having removed the cops from the trafficking game. However, in 2020, 42% of NYPD firearm arrests began as traffic stops (see also the famous public safety experience of Kansas City).”

Fox News Digital Alec Schemmel contributed to this report