NYC Mayor Mamdani Signed Order Benching NYPD Officers And Citizens Are Irate

New York City's socialist mayor just signed an executive order to pull police off 911 calls.

Mamdani made it official Thursday – and the city's own police commissioner is already drawing a line.

What he's building will cost New York taxpayers $1.1 billion, and the city hasn't even started paying yet.

Mamdani Creates Civilian Safety Office to Replace Police on 911 Calls

Mamdani signed an executive order Thursday creating the Office of Community Safety – a new bureaucracy that will send civilian workers instead of police to handle what the mayor calls "non-criminal emergencies," including mental health crises.

The office launches with just two staff members.

It will be led by Renita Francois, a former de Blasio administration staffer whose previous assignment was overseeing violence reduction in public housing.

Mamdani has big plans for scaling it up.

His original vision was a full $1.1 billion Department of Community Safety that would systematically divert 911 calls away from the NYPD.

Budget constraints forced a more modest start, but Mamdani made clear Thursday this is just the beginning.

He told reporters the new office will eventually "usher in a new era for our city's crisis response."

Even his own supporters warned New Yorkers to expect problems.

"There will be some mistakes," said City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams at Thursday's announcement.

NYPD Commissioner Tisch Fires Back with Four Words

Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch did not celebrate the announcement.

At a City Council budget hearing the day before Mamdani signed the order, Tisch laid out exactly what she thinks the practical limit should be.

The NYPD handles roughly 4.3 million calls for service annually, she said – and the mental health calls that could realistically be diverted amount to about 2% of that total.

Then she drew a hard line.

"You need to send the police when there's a call for a violent person," Tisch said.

Tisch knows what she's talking about.

Under her leadership, 2025 was the safest year for gun violence in New York City's recorded history – the fewest shooting incidents and shooting victims ever.

What Happens When Civilians Answer Violent 911 Calls

Mamdani's model depends entirely on 911 dispatchers correctly sorting violent from non-violent situations before a single responder rolls.

That is not how real emergencies work.

Mamdani cited as his justification the January police shooting of Jabez Chakraborty, a 22-year-old Queens man whose family dialed 911 looking for mental health assistance – a call that ended with Chakraborty advancing on officers with a knife.

A social worker walks into that situation with nothing.

Fox News national security analyst James Mulvaney, adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, has watched Mamdani's first weeks in office with growing alarm.

"I think that right now there's a wait-and-see attitude. Is Mayor Mamdani going to be supportive of the police or is it going to be like he's still campaigning for a socialist position?" Mulvaney told Fox News Digital.

The New York Post reported Mamdani appointed a police critic to his transition committee before taking office.

He also tapped an ex-convict to lead Rikers Island jails.

This is a mayor who campaigned by refusing to call for more police.

He ran on replacing cops with social workers in America's largest, most complex city.

And now he's spending billions to prove it works.

Commissioner Tisch delivered the safest year in the city's history using cops, data, and enforcement.

Mamdani is now systematically dismantling every tool that made those numbers possible – and he's doing it with your tax dollars, on purpose, while calling it progress.

When the body count goes up, remember who signed the order.

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Sources:

• Alexandra Koch, "Mamdani moves to sideline NYC police with new safety office under sweeping overhaul," Fox News, March 19, 2026.
• Associated Press, "NYC Mayor Mamdani launches community safety office, inching forward a campaign promise," Washington Times, March 19, 2026.
• amNewYork Staff, "Mayor Mamdani to sign order creating Office of Community Safety as first step on mental health response pledge," amNewYork, March 19, 2026.
• Nikolas Lanum, "The socialist crime blueprint begins. NYC leaders pull back the curtain on Mamdani's vision for public safety," Fox News, March 2026.
• Governor Kathy Hochul Press Office, "Safer Streets: Governor Hochul, Mayor Mamdani, Police Commissioner Tisch Announce Crime in New York City Continued to Fall in 2025," governor.ny.gov, January 2026.