It’s not a department and it’s not about safety or any recognizable community — but Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s launch of his Department of Community Safety otherwise checked all the boxes.
That is, the entity the mayor rolled out last week will symbolically honor his vow in last year’s campaign — and symbolism is what this mayoralty is all about.
Witness the great fanfare as Mamdani posed before a packed City Hall staircase to sign an executive order creating an Office of Community Safety…