Meet Mayor Mamdani’s pick for Community Safety office

Exclusive | Mamdani’s new deputy for community safety helped run Soros-funded group that backed abolishing cops and jails

NYC Mayor Zohran Zamdani’s new deputy deputy mayor of community safety previously helped lead a liberal lobbying group heavily funded by socialist billionaire kingmaker George Soros that actively pushed for defunding cops, abolishing jails and other radical ideologies antithetical to fighting crime.

Meet Mayor Mamdani’s pick for Community Safety office

NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) — Mayor Zohran Mamdani made a first step toward a pricey campaign promise, and he’s put Renita Francois in charge. Mamdani last week announced the creation of the Office of Community Safety and Francoi as Deputy Mayor for Community Safety. It’s a step toward a $1.1 billion promise to create a [...]

POLITICS: Mamdani’s Office of Community Safety leaves NYPD on the hook

Late last week, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the creation of a new Office of Community Safety. The news was presented as the fulfillment of a key campaign promise: the creation of a full Department of Community Safety, which would, among other things, civilianize mental-health crisis response by replacing police responders with trained mental-health professionals. On the campaign trail, Mamdani framed this move as a way to provid…