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Brad Lander: “NYPD overtime is in the mayor's control and is outrageous…”

Featuring: Brad Lander, Democratic | New York City Comptroller

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NYC Mayoral Candidate Brad Lander Discusses Immigration, Income Disparity, and Coalition Building on The Breakfast Club

Published | Video Starts at 01:02

If the city's future depended on cutting either NYPD overtime or tax subsidies for real estate developers, which one are you cutting from? Can we do both? Is there any reason we can't do both? I mean, NYPD overtime is in the mayor's control and is outrageous now. Over a billion dollars a year. Those tax subsidies mostly come in Albany, so the mayor has to go up there and attack that there. What exactly do you do as comptroller? (01:02–01:10)

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Asserts that NYPD overtime costs over a billion dollars annually and is controlled by the mayor.

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