Mamdani’s new deputy for community safety helped run Soros-funded group that backed abolishing cops and jails

Source: New York Post

Mayor Mamdani’s new deputy mayor for community safety is an anti-cop radical who previously led a George Soros-funded lobbying group that pushed defunding police and abolishing jails, The Post has learned. Renita Francois was appointed last week to the $290,000-a-year post and will head the socialist mayor’s new “Office of Community Safety,” which aims to overhaul how the NYPD responds to 911 calls. Francois, 42, spent the past four years working for West Hollywood, Calif.