Retired NYPD Chief of Department John Chell tore into Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s plan to end homeless encampment sweeps, calling it a dangerous “gamble” that will fuel a “sharp rise” in shantytowns.
Mamdani on Thursday said he will end outgoing Mayor Eric Adams’ policy of clearing homeless encampments, dismissing the effort as a failure for “not connecting homeless New Yorkers to the housing that they so desperately need,” the New York Post reported.
Chell on Friday challenged the policy change while defending the Homeless Street Task Force that launched in 2022.
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