Zohran Mamdani: “Here, at City Hall, as I sit behind George Washington's desk, I cannot see all of America. But like so many who came…”

I think that we have a civic responsibility to ensure that we are not leaving anybody out to dry.

While we cannot feel the silence they left behind, we will refuse to let their memory fade.

And over the last 10 months that we've worked together, we have delivered the lowest recorded number of murders in our city's history, the lowest recorded number of shootings as well as shooting victims.

The reason that I made the decision to have Jessica Tisch as the police commissioner was because of her record of uprooting corruption from the upper echelons of the NYPD while lowering crime across our city.