NYC Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani’s Chief Adviser Wants Social Workers Responding to 911 Calls

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NYC Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani’s Chief Adviser Wants Social Workers Responding to 911 Calls

Amy Furr 11 Nov 2025

New York City Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani’s long-time chief adviser Elle Bisgaard-Church reportedly wants to make huge changes to policing in the Big Apple.

Mamdani, who is a Democratic Socialist, won the mayoral race on November 4, per Breitbart News.

His long-time chief adviser reportedly led a campaign proposal to send social workers to address certain non-violent 911 calls across the city, Fox News reported Tuesday:

    The heavily criticized proposal was drummed up by the Ivy League-educated, California-native Elle Bisgaard-Church, a relative political newcomer affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Bisgaard-Church was tapped by Mamdani Monday to once again be his chief adviser while running the helm at New York City’s City Hall after serving in the same post during his campaign and during his state assembly days.

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    When developing the Department of Community Safety proposal, which aims to replace police officers with mental health professionals to deal with non-life-threatening emergencies with a focus on subway stations, Bisgaard-Church reportedly spoke to mental health experts, public safety officials from other cities and former New York City Police Department (NYPD) Chief of Department Rodney Harrison. The new department will cost approximately $1.1 billion, according to a campaign proposal on Mamadani’s website.

https://twitter.com/ZohranKMamdani/status/1988026593415991446

[Kamaji]

Go right ahead.  Should be good for some laughs.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Go right ahead.  Should be good for some laughs.

It is not a laughing matter.

My daughter in Seattle was a social worker for CPS.  When the city decided to push social workers to be the ones to first  respond to domestic disturbances, she quit as she feared for her safety.

Ask any cop what is the worst response situation, and it is always family disturbances,  One is liable to be under fire by both parties in the dispute.

It is absoluletly no place to put social workers into a combat zone,

[the OlLine Rebel]

It is not a laughing matter.

My daughter in Seattle was a social worker for CPS.  When the city decided to push social workers to be the ones to first  respond to domestic disturbances, she quit as she feared for her safety.

Ask any cop what is the worst response situation, and it is always family disturbances,  One is liable to be under fire by both parties in the dispute.

It is absoluletly no place to put social workers into a combat zone,

You are absolutely right.  One of the first things I thought reading this, “this is dangerous for these social workers”.  Never really occurred to me before, but for some reason that’s what I thought this time.  Maybe because rarely has it ever actually been implemented.

[jafo2010]

Mamdani is an idiot.  Literally no work experience, no life experience.  Good people are going to die.  SO, the question is how many good people need to die to prove this fool wrong?  How many families will lose their sons and daughters because this functional idiot is at the helm of a city that is one of the largest in the world.  He is another Obama, a man simply not qualified for the task at hand, and the people of New York are too dumb to comprehend that.

And the ones that do will join a mass exodus from the city, leaving the dumbest of the dumb.  The Dems are going to be eating sh*t sandwiches the whole time this dummy runs NYC into the ground.