Mamdani proposes Department of Community Safety following shooting of mentally ill man

Mayor Zohran Mamdani pushed his vague “Department of Community Safety” again on Tuesday after the NYPD’s recent shooting of a mentally ill Queens man – but couldn’t say how the newfangled agency would’ve responded. The cops’ chaotic confrontation with Jabez Chakraborty — a schizophrenic 22-year-old whom NYPD officers shot and injured Jan. 26 after he allegedly waved a knife at them — only highlighted the urgent need for a different mental health response system, Hizzoner argued.