In a win for public safety, Mamdani’s breaking yet another core campaign promise

Great news: Mayor Zohran Mamdani is breaking another campaign promise, and the city is safer for it.

Per NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, “conversations have not yet commenced” on the mayor’s dangerous plan to move actual cops off of working mental-health calls in favor of social workers or other civilians.

This insane idea formed the conceptual keystone of Mamdani’s proposed Department of Community Safety.

Yet he’s already set it up not as a “Department” but an “Office” status and kitted out with nothing more than a couple of sinecures for political allies, and now it looks like the “stop cops from dealing with potentially violent crazy people” plan is completely on ice. 

It’s clear that Mamdani, despite his loud public obeisance to every lefty nostrum imaginable, understands the reality here: Thanks to Tisch and New York’s Finest, crime in Gotham is headed down.

Indeed, the NYPD numbers released Wednesday show record lows for murders, shootings and shooting victims over the first five months of 2026, with particular gains against major crimes in The Bronx and in public housing citywide.

Deliberately undermining all that would be politically suicidal; so congrats to the mayor for backing off — as he’s done on many other fronts, from his vow to ax the NYPD’s Strategic Response Group and gang databases to his support for the class-size law and expanding housing vouchers. 

It’s an admirable pattern, where Mamdani betrays his core supporters — to the betterment of the whole city. 

Please please please keep it up, Mr. Mayor.