A damning new report on the Titan submersible disaster that killed five people has revealed that the tragedy was preventable, and the result of a flawed experimental design and ignored safety warnings with particular culpability placed on OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush.The 335-page report by the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) is the first full government post-mortem on the tragedy to date and the first official document to clearly assign blame to OceanGate, the now-defunct operators of the ill-fated vessel, and Rush.The report paints Rush as the architect of the submersible's failure who overruled engineers' warnings about the vessel's flawed design, which ultimately led to the vessel imploding near the Titanic wreck in the North Atlantic Ocean in 2023, resulting in the instantaneous death of all five occupants.VIDEO SHOWS OCEANGATE CEO'S WIFE REACT AFTER SOUND NOW THOUGHT TO HAVE BEEN TITAN SUB IMPLOSIONRush, who was piloting Titan when it imploded nearly 11,000 feet below the Atlantic Ocean, insisted on using a five-inch-thick carbon fiber hull despite failed model tests and industry opposition. The submersible's viewport was only rated for depths of 2,130 feet, far less than the 12,500 feet needed to reach the Titanic."This marine casualty and the loss of five lives was preventable," said Jason Neubauer, the USCG Titan Marine Board of Investigation (MBI) chair. "The two-year investigation has identified multiple contributing factors that led to this tragedy, providingvaluable lessons learned to prevent a future occurrence."Previous reports focused on the technical cause of the Titan's implosion but stopped short of assigning blame."Mr. Rush exerted full control over every facet of the company's operations and engineering decisions... His refusal to prioritize safety and his dominant leadership style created an environment where the Titan's eventual implosion became almost a certainty," the report found.The board determined theprimary contributing factors were OceanGate's inadequate design, certification, maintenance and inspection process for the Titan. Other factors included a toxic workplace culture at OceanGate, weak safety rules for deep-sea subs like Titan especially those using new or experimental designs and a broken system for protecting employees who tried to speak out.Titan suffered a catastrophic implosion due to structural failure of its carbon fiber composite pressure hull and the carbon fiber hull showed signs of fatigue and delamination in testing before the fatal dive. While OceanGate engineers and advisors raised serious concerns about its safety margin, they were ignored or sidelined by Rush, per the report.EERIE VIDEO SHOWS TITAN SUBMERSIBLE TAIL CONE ON OCEAN FLOOR"Titans carbon fiber hull design and construction, in terms of winding, curing, gluing, thickness of hull and manufacturing standards, introduced flaws that weakened the overall structural integrity of the Titan hull," the report reads. "The carbon fiber pressure hull suffered a full material collapse due to buckling on its final dive."Several red flags were raised in previous dives, but Rush continued operating Titan, dismissed internal warnings and concealed critical damage from crew and clients, the report found.For instance, more than 150 loud hull-cracking noises were heard in a 2019 dive, indicating progressive degradation. A four-foot crack was later found in the original hull, which was de-rated after pressure testing prompting OceanGate to build a new one. However, throughout the development of both hulls, four one-third scale models were tested and all of them imploded under pressure, reinforcing that the carbon fiber design was unstable.Additionally,the forward dome of the Titan a 3,500-pound pressure-bearing component was designed to be secured with 18 bolts, but Rush only used four bolts, according to testimony from OceanGates director of engineering at the time.During a 2021 Titanic dive, Titans four securing bolts sheared off while being hoisted aboard the Horizon Arctic, causing the forward dome to detach and fall onto the Launch and Recovery System platform in a catastrophic mechanical failure that narrowly avoided injuring the crew.The report found OceanGate bypassed industry-standard certification, ignored its own Health, Safety, and Environmental (HSE) manual and fostered a culture that suppressed safety concerns."Had OceanGate adhered to the safety standards outlined in its own HSE Manual and fostered a culture of transparency and accountability, this tragedy would likely have been averted with the final Titan hull removed from service well ahead of its implosion," the report states."Encouraging employees to voice concerns without fear of retaliation and prioritizing safety over expediency could have prevented the sequence of events that led to the disaster. Instead, the companys systemic failures created an environment where risks were ignored, and consequences were inevitable."Along with Rush, U.K. billionaire Hamish Harding, French mariner Paul-Henri Nargeolet and father-son pair Shahzada Dawood and Suleman Dawood also perished in the disaster.While the passengers signed waivers, they were not fully informed of the degree of experimental engineering involved or prior red flags, according to the report.Neubauer said stronger oversight and clear options for operators who are exploring new concepts in deep-sea exploration.U.S. regulatory authorities like the USCG and NTSB lacked jurisdiction because the Titan operated in international waters and was registered in the Bahamas. The report called for new legislation to expand U.S. oversight authority over deep-sea commercial submersibles carrying American citizens.The MBI called for new international safety standards, a ban on unclassed passenger vessels at extreme depths, a national submersible registry and referred potential legal violations to the Justice Department.

Newly-minted Pro Football Hall of Famer Jared Allen tried to do his sack dance one last time on Friday night during the gold jacket dinner, but his pants didnt cooperate.Allen, 43, was on stage with his family when he did his sack celebration: going down to a knee and then gesturing out with his hands.The Minnesota Vikings great stood up, grabbed the back of his leg and realized he had ripped his pants. Days later, Allen reacted to the incident, explaining that he simply got "caught up in the moment."CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM"I got caught up in the moment on Friday night during the gold jacket dinner and was coming off the stage and decided to do my sack celebration one last time, and I should've listened to my wife," Allen said during a Tuesday appearance on "Fox & Friends.""I came off the stage, and shes like, What are you thinking? Those are fitted pants, you know thats not going to work for you."The rip in Allens pants stretched from his rear to near the back of his kneecap.BRAND NEW NFL HALL OF FAMER HAS WARDROBE MALFUNCTION DOING SIGNATURE SACK CELEBRATIONAllen was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame alongside Sterling Sharpe, Eric Allen and Antonio Gates.In his 12-year career, Allen played for four teams. He spent six seasons with the Vikings, four with the Kansas City Chiefs, parts of two seasons with the Chicago Bears, and part of a season with the Carolina Panthers.The Chiefs selected Allen in the fourth round of the 2004 NFL Draft out of Idaho State.In 187 career games, the five-time Pro Bowler had 648 combined tackles with 136 sacks, six interceptions (one returned for a touchdown), 32 forced fumbles and 19 fumbles recovered, and he holds the NFLs all-time record with four safeties.Allen led the NFL in sacks twice, with 15.5 in 2007 and 22 in 2011.Fox News' Ryan Morik contributed to this report.Follow Fox News Digitals sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.

A former deputy to Lois Lerner who oversaw the IRS division accused of targeting conservative groups during the Obama years was placed on leave after lawmakers raised alarms that a new sub-department she was leading was becoming politicized.In 2013, Lerner was hauled before Congress, where it was revealed her agency had wrongfully scrutinized tax-exempt applications related to the phrases "Tea Party," "9/12" and "Constitution." The Treasurys inspector general later confirmed "inappropriate criteria" was used to target conservative groups and criticized ineffective oversight of systemic bias.IRS Commissioner of Large Business and International Division Holly Paz Lerners then-deputy was placed on leave last week as lawmakers drew attention to a subordinate work-unit aimed at auditing pass-through businesses that Biden-era Commissioner Danny Werfel had created and assigned her to lead.Werfel called the new work-unit a big step in "ensur[ing] the IRS holds the nations wealthiest filers accountable," and Paz called it an "important change" in the IRS structure.TRUMP SCORES MAJOR WIN AS SENATE INSTALLS IRS CRITIC TO LEAD THE AGENCYHowever, by 2025, lawmakers, including Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., warned that the pass-thru-business compliance unit had transformed to be "motivated by ideology rather than principles of sound tax administration.""Pass-through entities form the bulk of Main Street businesses across the country. This includes countless family businesses, professional services firms, and real estate ventures that serve as the backbone of our local economies," Blackburn and Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso, R-Wyo., wrote to the Treasury in May.Around that time, Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa., warned Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent that Pazs team "has made tongue-in-cheek political comments," including their stated wish to "make basis great again" a phrase regarding taxation loss/gain that hearkens to President Donald Trumps MAGA slogan.In that regard, Rep. Lloyd Smucker, R-Pa., wrote to IRS Commissioner Billy Long in July that a Biden-era "basis-shifting transaction rule" had "extended the scope" of enforcement.SENATE DOGE LEADER SEEKS CRACKDOWN ON TAX-DODGING GOVERNMENT WORKERS"American taxpayers and businesses deserve clear and consistent tax rules that allow them to confidently comply with the law," Smucker wrote, adding he and Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., are seeking to have that rule "reconsidered" for the sake of unburdening "Main Street" businesses.Chuck Flint, a former top aide to Blackburn and president of the Alliance for IRS Accountability, told Fox News Digital on Tuesday that Pazs past targeting of conservative groups makes her "unfit for government service."Flint said her statements to Congress and role as LB&I chief "places a cloud over the IRS.""Paz's Biden-era pass-through unit is now bludgeoning conservative businesses with fines and must be disbanded. Commissioner Long is flexing his muscles on the IRS Deep State and sending a signal to rogue bureaucrats by placing Paz on leave."Blackburn warned in her letter to Bessent that an IRS news release referencing targeting "complex arrangements" lacked clear definitions and created the impression that legitimate business structures could be unfairly targeted based on legal structure versus actual tax compliance risk."Even more concerning, the announcement explicitly states that the bureaucratic changes were designed primarily to achieve its goal of increased audit rates in this complex area."LAWMAKERS TAKE ACTION AFTER REPORT SHOWS BIDEN-ERA SBA FAILED TO PROBE 2 MILLION ALLEGED COVID AID FRAUDSTERS"This focus on increasing audits rather than improving compliance suggests an agenda-driven approach to enforcement," Blackburn said.In her letter, Ernst warned Bessent that Pazs team members "have also undermined their appearance of impartiality by comparing legally acceptable transactions to obscene material, saying, Its one of those You know it when you see it a joking reference to [Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewarts] attempt to define pornography."This team is reportedly acting independently and duplicating existing IRS processes, wasting taxpayer money, and not coordinating with the pre-existing offices," Ernst said."Most concerning of all, the new pass-through auditors even use a new template for requesting taxpayer information theyve deemed 'The Art of the IDR,' (versus The Art of the Deal) which treats taxpayers as guilty until proven innocent.""Unfortunately, the Biden administration picked up right where Ms. Lerner and her team left off. On September 20, 2023, then-Commissioner Daniel Werfel announced, with language that resembled Democrat talking points, the creation of a duplicative new work unit [led by Paz] to specifically audit pass-through businesses and partnerships. The new office subjects these businesses to potentially two separate IRS examinations in the same year.CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP"One would think Commissioner Werfel would go to great lengths to avoid hearkening back to previous scandals. Instead, he thumbed his nose at taxpayers by placing Lois Lerners deputy Holly Pazat the helm," Ernst wrote.Lerner was front-and-center during the Obama-era scandal, testifying before Congress as head of the tax-exempt organizations division, as a deluge of reports of targeting right-leaning nonprofits abounded.During the 2013 investigation by the House Oversight Committee, Reps. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Darrell Issa, R-Calif., demanded Paz answer for "inconsistencies" from a transcribed interview with committee staff involving statements about "intervention" against Tea Party groups.A 2015 report by then-Senate Finance Committee leaders Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Ronald Wyden, D-Ore., found that in other cases, some liberal terminology was also flagged, including "ACORN," "progressive" and "medical marijuana.""While handled poorly, groups on both sides of the political spectrum were treated the same in their efforts to secure tax-exempt status," Wyden said at the time, while then-Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, said Democrats should be equally outraged as Republicans.Fox News Digital reached out to Treasury, the IRS and an email connected to Paz for comment.

New York Post columnist Miranda Devine told Fox News host Will Caine on Monday that President Donald Trump wanted accountability over "Russiagate" against Hillary Clinton and former President Barack Obama."I think the reason that I think there will be accountability this term is because President Trump told me that he regrets now being so merciful to Hillary Clinton in his first term," Devine told Cain in his podcast, "Will Cain Country."Devine interviewed Trump on her "Pod Force One" podcast last week, where he claimed Obama had committed treason after DNI Tulsi Gabbard accused his administration of promoting a "contrived narrative" that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to benefit Trump, which led to a sprawling collusion investigation that dominated his first term in office."He realizes now that accountability is a deterrent, that these people, they need to be heads on pikes," Devine said.TULSI GABBARD DETAILS BOMBSHELL CLAIMS OF OBAMA-ERA CABAL'S 'TREASONOUS CONSPIRACY' AGAINST TRUMP"So whether it's Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton, certainly John Brennan and James Clapper, there are allegations quite firmly evidenced of perjury and also conspiracy," she added.Attorney General Pam Bondi directed her staff Monday to act on the criminal referral from Gabbard related to the alleged conspiracy to tie Trump to Russia, and the Department of Justice is now opening a grand jury investigation into the matter, Fox News Digital reported on Monday.OBAMA NOW 'SQUARELY IN RUSSIAGATE CROSSHAIRS,' JOURNALIST MATT TAIBBI CLAIMSBondi personally ordered an unnamed federal prosecutor to initiate legal proceedings and the prosecutor is expected to present department evidence to a grand jury, which would allow the department to secure a potential indictment according to a letter from Bondi reviewed by Fox News Digital and a source familiar with the investigation."What they've done is so bad for this country. And it really started right at the 2016 election," Trump claimed of Gabbard's findings during his conversation with Devine. "And there's a difference when you know it and when you know it, and it's all written down for you. I mean, it's all there. It's right there. The orders, the memos, the whole thing. It's right there."CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTUREThe president went on to call out Obama, who has denied the allegations. Trump also discussed Hillary Clinton and the "terrible things she did with the Steele Dossier."

Ghislaine Maxwell's defense team told the court on Tuesday that it opposes a judge unsealing grand jury transcripts in her criminal case after the Trump Department of Justice moved to unseal them.Maxwell's attorneys wrote in court papers that the unsealing would jeopardize her appeal to the Supreme Court and that their client could not take an "informed position" since the court has declined to let her defense team see the transcripts in advance."Jeffrey Epstein is dead. Ghislaine Maxwell is not," her attorney wrote. "Whatever interest the public may have in Epstein, that interest cannot justify a broad intrusion into grand jury secrecy in a case where the defendant is alive, her legal options are viable, and her due process rights remain."This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

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Social workers and other non-police professionals like "transit ambassadors" should handle certain 911 calls to ease NYPD workloads and improve officer retention, New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani said Monday.Mamdani's position on law enforcement and public safety took center stage following a mass shooting in Manhattan on July 28 that killed four people, including a police officer. In light of the tragic shooting, Mamdani's critics began slamming him for past remarks about defunding the police in New York City.Mamdani was once again asked about his approach to crime and public safety Monday in a press conference with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., when he offered up his idea."I've said time and time again that every decision I make with regards to the NYPD will work backwards from an outcome of public safety and that public safety, we know, it is one that also comes from listening to officers themselves," Mamdani said Monday.'DAMAGE CONTROL': MAMDANI'S 'BLATANT FLIP-FLOP' ON DEFUNDING POLICE RIPPED AS 'POLITICAL THEATRE'The self-described socialist candidate went on to cite "forced overtime" as a leading cause for many New York City police officers' decision to leave their jobs, noting that NYPD officers receive around 200,000 emergency calls pertaining to a mental health crisis every year."The fact that every year we ask them to take on additional responsibilities we are making it more and more difficult for them to respond to the very responsibilities that drew them to the job in the first place," Mamdani argued. "New Yorkers rightfully have concerns around public safety, and I want to empower police officers to respond to serious crime and hire the mental health professionals to respond to mental health calls."FLASHBACK: ZOHRAN MAMDANI PLEDGED TO 'DISBAND' KEY POLICE UNIT THAT HANDLES MASS SHOOTINGSTo explain the issue further, Mamdani pointed to a hypothetical incident involving a distressed tourist, arguing officers are forced to use resources to answer these calls, but that could end if the city were to hire a "transit ambassador.""This forced overtime is something that we can expect. It's not a surprise. It's a requirement of so much of the asks that we are making of these officers," Mamdani told reporters, in response to questions about his proposal to help reduce law enforcement overtime."When we ensure that it's not an officer who has to stand in the middle of the Times Square subway station and answer a question from a tourist about which exit works, and which escalator they can take, and what line is running with delays or without them, but that we actually have a transit ambassador such that that officer can focus on serious crime, it starts to reduce the kind of overtime that has ballooned."Meanwhile, during a podcast appearance in 2020, the same year Mamdani made his now infamous social media posts calling to defund the NYPD, the socialist candidate for mayor also suggested police should not be the ones responding to domestic violence calls."If somebody is surviving, going through domestic violence there are so many different, different situations that would far better be handled by people trained to deal with those specific situations as opposed to an individual with a gun who has received quite a limited amount of training in general," Mamdani said at the time.MAMDANI, CUOMO CLASH OVER WHO IS BETTER AT SUPPORTING LAW ENFORCEMENT AFTER MANHATTAN MASS SHOOTINGIn response to Mamdani's calls to have social workers, not police officers, respond to certain 911 calls related to mental health crises, incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, himself a former NYPD captain, called the idea "irresponsible" and "reckless.""So when you put civilians in harm's way to respond to a domestic violence incident, that's irresponsible and it's reckless," Adams said while criticizing Mamdani's public safety platform, according to CBS News.In Mamdani's 17-page public safety plan released earlier this year amid his race to be the Democratic Party's candidate for NYC mayor, he diverged from many of his primary opponents in that he did not envision hiring more officers to the force, according to the New York Times. Rather, per his plan, Mamdani would work to create a Department of Community Safety aimed at expanding mental health teams and other non-law enforcement personnel who can respond to certain 911 calls.Mamdani's proposal also spoke to eliminating the NYPD's overtime budget and its task force that is responsible for dealing with protests, according to The Times.Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has been a staunch critic of Mamdani's approach to public safety and police, released his public safety platform on Monday, calling for increasing the number of officers on the NYPD's force by about 5,000.Cuomo, who is running as an Independent after losing to Mamdani in the Democratic Party primary, also wants to increase officer pay and improve access to benefits and pensions for retired officers.

TheSupreme Court on Friday ordered additional arguments in a major case centered on whether race can factor into drawing congressional maps, a clear sign that redistricting remains top-of-mind for the justices ahead of the 2026 midterms.Justices ordered both parties in Louisiana v. Callais to return for additional arguments next term. At issue is whether Louisiana's latest congressional map which includes the creation of a second, majority-Black district should be considered an unconstitutional "illegal racial gerrymander."The Supreme Court order comes months after justices first heard oral arguments in the case in March. It requires both parties to file supplemental briefs by mid-September, outlining in further detail their view of whether Louisiana's intentional creation of a second majority-minority congressional district "violates the Fourteenth or Fifteenth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution."Reply briefs should be filed no later than Oct. 3, the Supreme Court said in the unsigned, single-page order just three days before the high court gavels in for the 2025-2026 session.SUPREME COURT HEARS PIVOTAL LOUISIANA ELECTION MAP CASE AHEAD OF 2026 MIDTERMSThe order comes after the Supreme Court in June said they would not decide the case this term as had been expected punting it to the fall for further consideration. At the time, the justices said they needed more information before ruling on the case.The issue underscores the challenges states face with congressional redistricting.Louisiana has revised its congressional map twice since the 2020 census. The first version, which included only one majority-Black district, was blocked by a federal court in 2022. The court sided with the Louisiana State Conference of the NAACP and other plaintiffs, ruling the map diluted Black voting power and ordering the state to redraw it by January 2024.The new map, S.B. 8, created the second Black-majority district at the center of the Supreme Court case. However, S.B. 8 was almost immediately challenged by a group of non-Black plaintiffs in court, who took issue with a new district that stretched some 250 miles from Louisiana's northwest corner of Shreveport to Baton Rouge, in the state's southeast.They argued in the lawsuit that the state violated the equal protection clause by relying too heavily on race to draw the maps, and created a "sinuous and jagged second majority-Black district."FEDERAL JUDGES GRILL TRUMP LAWYERS OVER 'LIBERATION DAY' TARIFFS ON EVE OF ENFORCEMENTThat map remains in place for now, until the Supreme Court can hear the additional information submitted to the court this fall. Oral arguments in March focused heavily on whether Louisiana's redistricting efforts were narrowly tailored enough to meet constitutional requirements and whether race was used in a way that violated the law, as appellees had alleged.The high court's request for additional information comes at a pivotal time for the U.S., as new and politically charged redistricting fights have popped up in other U.S. states ahead of next year's midterm elections.In Texas, tensions reached a fever pitch this week after Democratic state legislators fled the Lone Star State to block Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's ability to convene a legislative quorum needed to pass the state's aggressive new redistricting map, which would create five additional Republican-leaning districts.Under the state's constitution, two-thirds of the House legislators must be present for the body to conduct business. With an eye to this rule, Democratic lawmakers fled the state to Chicago, New York and Boston beyond the reach of Texas authorities and of Abbott, who has little power in the near-term to compel their returns.The governor has, however, threatened to take them to court to have them removed from office altogether.In a press conference Monday, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul stressed the magnitude of the redistricting efforts, and vowed to explore "every option" in redrawing state lines."We are at war," Hochul said, speaking alongside the six Texas Democrats who fled to her state."And that's why the gloves are off and I say, bring it on," she added.The move is part of a broader redistricting push aimed at helping Republicans defend their slim House majority. As with most midterms following a new presidents election, 2026 is expected to serve as a referendum on the White House raising GOP concerns that they could lose control of the chamber.

Hunter Biden revealed he started a new job working with a nonprofithomeless prevention and tenants' rights group in southern Los Angeles.The former presidents son made the announcement during an interview with "Channel 5" podcaster Andrew Callaghan, which was posted to YouTube on Tuesday."I just think there is such an opportunity to be of service right now and not in, you know, some kind of melodramatic way but I just, a lot of people that are, you know, getting the s--- beat out of them out there, right here in LA. And there is enormous opportunity for just normal people to do kind of heroic things," Biden said."Im working with a group now called BASTA, the homeless prevention, and I just started actually as director of development for BASTA, which is the leading homeless prevention and tenants' rights group in southern Los Angeles," Biden added.WHITE HOUSE FLIPS SCRIPT ON HUNTER BIDEN'S PROFANITY-LACED RANT AGAINST TRUMP'S IMMIGRATION POLICIESBiden told Callaghan that the organization protects people "from eviction, and we are the only group at least in southern California that represents undocumented and so we dont take any federal money.""Its not just El Salvadorean immigrants, its Ukrainian immigrants that came here under duress from what is going on in Ukraine and find it really hard to find work because of the fear of employers. that they are going to disrupt their business because of ICE raids and things like that," the presidents son also said. HOMELESS PEOPLE CAN BE REMOVED FROM STREETS BY CITIES, STATES IN NEW TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDER"Then they lose their income, and almost all of these people are families and children. And if you can keep someone in their apartment or their home you obviously also [are] keeping somebody off the street and homelessness. And what you find is that when a child becomes homeless, the road back to any chance of normalcy just becomes exponentially harder and harder."BASTA, on its website, said it was founded in 2005 and has now become the "most comprehensive tenant rights organization in Southern California.""We have more than 15 attorneys and 10 staff across four full-service offices, serving virtually every need of the tenant community (legal or otherwise)," the nonprofit said."BASTA pioneered the strategy of bringing all eviction defense cases to jury trial, which is a right under Californias constitution. Rather than having cases decided by a single judge, cases are decided by members of the community including many tenants. The strategy works. BASTA has won more jury trials in eviction cases than all of the other organizations in Southern California combined," the organization added.Fox News Digital has reached out to BASTA for comment.

New York Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani continues to attempt a political pivot after his resurfaced "defund the police" posts have drawn scrutiny in the wake of a mass shooting in Manhattan, as some of his critics say it's too little too late."Ive said time and time again that every decision I make with regards to the NYPD will work backwards from an outcome of public safety. And that public safety, we know it is one that also comes from listening to officers themselves. Two-hundred officers are leaving the department every month. A leading cause of their departure is forced overtime," Mamdani said on Monday."And the fact that every year we ask them to take on additional responsibilities, we are making it more and more difficult for them to respond to the very responsibilities that drew them to the job in the first place," he added.TIMELINE: EVOLUTION OF MAMDANI'S DEFUNDING POLICE RHETORIC TO THIS WEEK'S 'DAMAGE CONTROL'Mamdani has called for the creation of a Department of Community Safety to deal with certain "mental health programs and crisis response," according to his campaign website."And I think about the seven major categories of crime listed in CompStat. That is not the full extent of what we ask officers to do. The NYPD receives 200,000 mental health calls every year. How can they be expected to respond to that and to this? New Yorkers rightfully have concerns around public safety, and I want to empower police officers to respond to serious crime and hire mental health professionals to respond to mental health calls," he added.Fox News Digital reported that Mamdani has made several public calls to "defund the police" dating back to June 2020, and then changed his tune slightly during his campaign.'DAMAGE CONTROL': MAMDANI'S 'BLATANT FLIP-FLOP' ON DEFUNDING POLICE RIPPED AS 'POLITICAL THEATRE'"We dont need an investigation to know that the NYPD is racist, antiqueer & a major threat to public safety," he posted on June 28, 2020. "What we need is to #DefundTheNYPD. But your compromise uses budget tricks to keep as many cops as possible on the beat. NO to fake cuts defundthepolice.""We need a socialist city council to defund the police," he wrote on July 3, 2020."Queer liberation means defund the police," Mamdaniposted on Nov 6, 2020.Even he said in a post to "dismantle" the police in December 2020. "City Council tried to make the NYPD reduce its overtime budget by half," Mamdaniposted on X. "They simply refused. There is no negotiating with an institution this wicked & corrupt. Defund it. Dismantle it. End the cycle of violence."During a mayoral debate in the primary, he changed his tone from years past.MAMDANI DODGES RESPONSIBILITY FOR THREATS TO NYPD IN FIRST PRESSER SINCE DEADLY MANHATTAN SHOOTING"I will not defund the police. I will work with the police because I believe the police have a critical role to play in public service, public safety," he said.His comments faced renewed scrutiny following the 345 Park Avenue mass shooting, where five died, including the gunman and a police officer, Didarul Islam."I'm heartbroken to learn of the horrific shooting in Midtown and I am holding the victims, their families, and the NYPD officer in critical condition in my thoughts. Grateful for all of our first responders on the ground," Mamdani posted to X after the shooting, and he returned from his trip to Uganda early in the wake of the tragedy.However, New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who is a former police officer, said that his recent rhetoric and actions, including attending Islams funeral, are a political tactic."We lost officers before he was running for mayor. Where was he? Did he feel those officers deserve to be lifted up as he lifted up now Officer Islam during the election? We need to ask, where was he?" Adams told reporters at City Hall on Monday, according to theNew York Post.The closely watched election is on Nov. 4, and it remains a four-way race between Mamdani, Adams, Republican Curtis Sliwa and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo.