Jared Evan 

In a stunning display of ideological ignorance and dangerous naiveté, Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani once suggested that police officers should be sidelined from responding to domestic violence calls — one of the most volatile and deadly categories of emergency situations.

According to the Washington Free Beacon, Mamdani made the comments during a 2020 appearance on the Immigrantly podcast, where he argued that NYPD officers are poorly suited to respond to these dangerous calls. “There are so many different, different situations that would far better be handled by people trained to deal with those specific situations,” Mamdani said, referring to social workers and civilian responders.

Interview with the deranged, woke, communist  Mamdani 

The New York Post reported that Mamdani claimed officers could escalate situations unnecessarily simply by showing up with a firearm. “An individual with a gun who has received quite a limited amount of training in general — but also in regards to these specific situations,” he said, shouldn’t be the one intervening in domestic disputes.

Let’s be clear: Mamdani isn’t just wrong — he’s recklessly out of touch.

As both the Post and Free Beacon highlight, Mamdani is advocating for sending unarmed civilians into homes where tensions are explosive, weapons are often involved, and emotions can turn lethal in seconds. According to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV), nearly 1 in 4 women and 1 in 7 men have experienced severe physical violence by an intimate partner. Over half of female homicide victims in the U.S. are killed by a current or former partner. These are not conflicts that end with a mediation circle or a pamphlet — they often end with someone in a body bag.

Even worse, children are frequently caught in the crossfire. Family annihilators — parents who kill their spouses and children — are an all-too-common horror in the world of domestic violence. In many cases, a calm, trained police officer is the only line between a violent abuser and a massacre.

The idea that a well-meaning social worker can de-escalate a situation where a man is threatening to kill his wife and kids with a knife or firearm is not only dangerously naïve — it’s insulting to the reality victims face. Police officers put themselves at risk every day responding to these volatile 911 calls because they are often the only ones with the tools, authority, and training to intervene decisively when lives are on the line.

Mamdani, 33, is a self-described democratic socialist who, as the Post notes, has called for a new $1 billion “Department of Community Safety” that would replace police in mental health calls, homelessness, and domestic disputes. He’s also railed against police responding to what he deems “minor” issues like fare evasion and jaywalking, claiming those interactions can become fatal.

In the same podcast, Mamdani claimed that homeless individuals trying to sleep on the subway or people suffering from mental health issues are often met with violence by police. “Instead of receiving a helping hand they were shot, they were Tased, they were killed,” he said.

But the Free Beacon and NY Post rightly frame these comments as dangerously simplistic. Not all mental health crises are benign. Not all “sleeping homeless” are harmless. And certainly not all domestic disputes are safe enough to be handled by someone with a clipboard and a calming tone.

Eric Adams, himself a former NYPD captain, has repeatedly warned against “ideologues” who misunderstand the reality of crime on the ground. Mamdani, meanwhile, appears to be doubling down on a utopian fantasy that would put unarmed civilians in harm’s way while pulling trained officers out of the most dangerous situations imaginable.

The silence from Mamdani’s campaign, which did not respond to Post requests for comment, says it all.

Mocking billionaires while cashing George Soros checks, undermining public safety in the name of social justice, and now pushing to disarm the front line of domestic violence response — Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign isn’t just unserious. It’s dangerous.