NYC mayoral candidate Mamdani conducts fact checks on NYPD personnel claims

New York City Socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani was attacked by a “fact check” by local crime experts, a potential future mayor announced by the staffing issue of the New York Police Department.

“There are a lot of mistakes in the post @zohrankmamdani here,” Rafael A. Mangual, director of policing and public safety research at the Manhattan Institute, Posted on X In response to Mamdani, the latter has faced criticism for repeated calls from past returns to the New York Police Department.

Mamdani used the article, which was titled “Bloody Blue: Why does the NYPD lose an average of 300 police officers per month?” To illustrate why his policing advice to the Department of Community Safety would “allow police officers to do the job they actually signed up for.”

“Fact check: This is not to say that the police are upset because their responsibilities are too large,” Mangual said of the article cited by Mamdani.

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Mangual went on to explain that the reason why NYPD officials left the force is related to “there are only 33,000 officials at present, and there are currently only 33,000 officials compared to the troops once equipped.

“There is no doubt that greater power will be able to handle the current responsibilities of the New York Police Department,” added Mangual’s Thread.

Mangual admits that forcing overtime is “of course a problem”, but the solution to the problem is to hire more police officers rather than “shrink what they do” as the Mamdani movement suggests.

“So why not promise to bring 7,000 of them into the department?” the comic asked. “A: Because Mamdani doesn’t want more police.”

Mamdani Restored his past support A New York Police Department official allocated funds to the police department in July after being shot dead in the city’s worst mass shooting in 25 years, but he said he wanted to keep personnel at its current level.

“It should be seen that Mamdani’s proposal: a downplay initiative disguised as compassionate relief,” said Mangual on X.

In an interview with Fox News Digital Earlier this monthwarned that the New York Police Department’s “near-skeleton crew” dropped to 33,000 officials, compared with 41,000 at the beginning of the century.

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Mamdani faces criticism for repeated calls for grants to the New York Police Department (NYPD). (Getty Image)

“It’s a big change, especially given the 911 calls the department has to make every year, and more to do in the post-9/11 world, where the department adopts these additional counter-terrorism and intelligence aspects,” Mangual said. “So you take the risk of creating a situation where a department that has starved for recruits will become more attractive to those who are considering working in the department,” he said..“

Mamdani argued during the campaign that social workers and other non-political professionals, such as Transit Ambassadors, should handle certain 911 calls to ease NYPD’s workload and improve officials’ retention.

Mandani said earlier this month: “I said time and time again that every decision I made about the NYPD will go backwards from the outcome of public safety and public safety.

Mamdani believes “forced overtime” is the main reason for many New York City police decisions to leave their jobs, noting that NYPD officials receive about 200,000 emergency calls related to mental health crisis each year.

“Every year we ask them to take on additional responsibilities – we make it increasingly difficult for them to deal with the responsibilities that make them work,” Mamdani said. “New Yorkers are rightly concerned about public safety, and I want to empower police to respond to serious crimes and hire mental health professionals to deal with mental health calls.”

In the topic on X, Mangual also asserts about Mamdani that gun violence is part of the failure of the “social safety net”.

“So there is a huge problem with the premise of Mamdani, which is: gun violence is not a byproduct of safety net failure,” Mangual said. “None of ‘Hate violence’ or any other violence.”

“The idea that people hurt others because of lack of material resources is against the idea of ​​a large amount of social science evidence with the opposite weight. It also is a very insulting majority of poor New Yorkers who have never considered life as violent crime.”

New York City Democratic mayor nominee Zohran Mamdani talked with supporters at the Canvas Launch Tournament Sunday, August 17, 2025 at Prospect Park. (Deirdre Heaveny/Fox News Numbers)

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Mangual told Fox News Digital that “calling” Mamdani “important” is “important” because his public safety platform “relies on some particularly bad assumptions and basic misunderstandings and misunderstandings how and why policing is done.

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“The underlying idea is that police should spend less time on ‘little stuff’ so they can focus on ‘big stuff’, which reflects a deep misunderstanding of reality that is often discovered through interactions based on ‘little stuff’.”

“To give an example: Mamdani advocates taking police from traffic law enforcement games. However, in 2020, 42% of NYPD gun arrests began to start with traffic stops (see also the famous Kansas City Gun Experiment). These are important nuances, and the public should understand that given the public safety issues in this election, which is what the public should understand.”

Alec Schemmel of Fox News Digital contributes to this report