Overview
- Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch told City Council on June 1 that formal conversations between the NYPD and the Office of Community Safety have not started and that no programs have been shifted to the new office.
- City Hall responded that OCS leaders expect a meeting with the NYPD later this week and that some OCS staff have met with some NYPD staff, a point that City Hall and the commissioner described differently.
- Council leaders, including Speaker Julie Menin, pressed for details about the office’s mandate and how Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s $260 million launch pledge will be used to change who responds to public-safety and crisis calls.
- Existing alternative response teams are limited in scale: the city says B-HEARD covers about 2% of roughly 4 million annual 911 calls and responded to about 8% of 17,961 eligible mental-health calls in the first four months of 2026.
- Large projected NYPD overtime costs for major events — $35–42 million for July 1–7, $92 million for June and July event overtime and a departmental projection near $955 million for the fiscal year — add pressure to funding and staffing decisions that could affect implementation.