Mayor Zohran Mamdani is expected to sign an executive order Thursday afternoon creating a new Office of Community Safety — the first formal step toward fulfilling one of his core campaign promises, according to a copy of the order reviewed by amNewYork.
Mamdani made the creation of a Department of Community Safety a central campaign promise, pitching it as a way to reduce the city’s reliance on police in responding to mental health emergencies and other non-criminal crises. Pressure on the administration to move faster intensified after the Jan. 25 police shooting of Jabez Chakraborty, a 22-year-old Queens man whose family had sought help during a mental health crisis.
