City Council Speaker Julie Menin ‘concerned’ about Zohran Mamdani’s rollback of NYPD hiring

City Council Speaker Julie Menin is sounding the alarm about Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s decision not to boost the Police Department’s ranks as planned.

“We are concerned about that,” the Manhattan Democrat said during an interview on Fox 5 New York aired Friday, when asked what the council made of Mamdani’s recent move to keep the NYPD’s headcount as is.

“We’ve got the same number of officers basically that we had on 9/11 yet the city has grown substantially,” Menin said.

The speaker has expressed concern over Mamdani’s plan to roll back NYPD hiring goals. Michael Nigro for NY Post

“So that is an area of real concern,” she added, noting that the council was also keeping a close eye on the city’s crime rate.

“We do want to make sure that the NYPD has the proper resources,” Menin said.

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Mamdani’s predecessor, Mayor Eric Adams, had announced the plan to surge the department’s ranks by 5,000 on his way out in October, putting pressure on the anti-police Democratic socialist candidate in the campaign’s last days.

The proposal would have upped the NYPD’s ranks to 40,000, the highest levels in more than 20 years.

Mamdani at the time was quick to shoot down the idea, maintaining that he’d keep the headcount at the current 35,000.

Mayor Eric Adams had planned to surge police to 40,000 — the largest force in nearly 20 years. Stephen Yang

That’s one campaign promise he did follow through on, as his $127 billion preliminary budget proposal unveiled Tuesday did not include funding for the new cops.

“It’s not a question of headcount. It’s a question of safety,” he previously said when pressed about Adams’ plan.