The candidate for the socialist town hall of New York Zohran Mamdani faces the reaction on a vague response

The candidate for the socialist town hall of New York, Zohran Mamdani, faces reactions on social networks concerning a answer to a question of a journalist on his public security platform, who, according to criticism, offered little or no details.

“What would your public security plan look like? Explain to our viewers,” CBS Marcia Kramer asked in New York during the weekend.

“Absolutely, you know, before the West Indian parade, I visited Little Caribbean and I spoke to a number of residents of East Flatbush who shared their concerns about armed violence,” replied Mamdani. “And I met a certain number of New Yorkers who were part of the crisis management system which was part of an approach to healing violence to face armed violence and they told me how important it was to have a global approach to reduce armed violence and to enlist them frankly from the entity of our city.”

Mamdani continued by saying that it would be necessary to “work with the police” and “work with the crisis management system” with “working with the approach of healing violence”.

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New York Democrat mayor’s candidate Zohran Mamdani continued his anti-Trump tour in New York with an event in the Bronx on Thursday, August 14, 2025. (Deirdre Heavey / Fox News Digital)

“All these things to offer this security,” continued Mamdani before explaining that he also went to the Bronx to meet a program called “Guns Down Life Up”.

“One of the young men I met, he had in fact been attacked and was at Lincoln hospital and thought of retaliation and it was then that he learned this program. They recruited him to join the program and instead of another act of violence, he is in the place now a mentor to others who have just passed by the same process.”

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Mamdani, who was widely criticized on his previous calls to finance the police and his resistance to engaging in more police officers in the city, was criticized on social networks on his lack of details during the answer to the question.

“Marcia Kramer of CBS New York asks Zohran Mamdani to” explain “his” public security plan “- he gives a salad of words and does not offer *BACHELOR* Concrete measurement, “Jason Cohen, journalist of the daily caller, Posted on X.

New York town hall candidate Zohran Mamdani briefly speaks with journalists as he leaves the building of the Dirksen Senate office on July 16, 2025 in Washington, DC (Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images)

“While you admire this pleasant answer (which does not deal with the way of dealing with criminals), remember that the speaking man called nypd a” major racist and anti-Queer for public security “and has repeatedly called for its funding”, the contributor of Fox News, Guy Benson, Guy Benson Posted on X.

“When your curriculum vitae lacks a relevant experience and you do not know how to manage crime and armed violence, your answer to a simple question on how to protect our children from the catch Posted on X.

The interview also drew the attention of one of Mamdani’s opponents in November, the current mayor Eric Adams who Posted on X“Mamdani cannot answer the question because he has no plan to deal with public security. Being a rapper does not qualify you to be mayor of the largest city in America.”

Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, also against Mamdani, Posted on X Regarding the exchange by also saying: “Imagine a world where the Democratic candidate for the mayor of New York does not have a single plan understandable for public security. Well, you are lucky, Twitterverse

Fox News Digital contacted the Mamdani campaign to comment.

Mamdani also explained in the interview of about 20 minutes that his opponents attack a “legendary version” of himself when they criticize his 2020 calls to finance the police and his past tweets are “outside” with his current platform.

Zohran Mamdani, New York town hall candidate, on the left, raises the hands of the Reverend Al Sharpton, founder and president of the National Action Network, during a campaign event at the Nan House of Justice in the Harlem district of New York, in the United States, on Saturday June 28, 2025. (Adam Gray / Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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Mamdani’s plan for a “ministry of public security” which would send “awareness workers” in metros and its positions on the police caused a significant decline, in particular an expert who recently talked to Fox News Digital.

“Even if he does not necessarily pursue the most radical positions he has taken in the very recent past, he has expressed his support for many initiatives that would erode public security in many different ways, including and in particular in the communities that deal with the freight of the research of our country and public security of the Manhattan Rafael A. Institute, said.

A recent Survey on probable voters In the Big Apple – which was produced from September 2 to 6 – noted that, including the meager, on the question of who people would support if the competition “was organized today”, “46% chose Mamdani, against only 24% for Cuomo, with other candidates even worse.

Alex Nitzberg of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.