Late last week, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani  announced  the creation of a new Office of Community Safety. The news was presented as the fulfillment of a key campaign promise: the creation of a full Department of Community Safety, which would, among other things, civilianize mental-health crisis response by replacing police responders with trained mental-health professionals. On the campaign trail, Mamdani framed this move as a way to provide relief to an overburdened NYPD. But mental-