And I want to hire 5,000 more police officers. Great. Which would bring us back to where we were during the Dinkins Giuliani administration, which is what then led into the Bloomberg administration. We have the smallest police force now in modern political history because we catered to this far left. Defund the police. This didn't just happen. They took a billion dollars out of the police budget, reduced the number of police because police were a threat to public safety. (40:55–41:02)
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