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Curtis Sliwa: “We got to get them their qualified immunity that was…”

Featuring: Curtis Sliwa, Conservative | Radio Talk Show Host, Former Candidate, Mayor of New York City

Curtis Sliwa's full interview on The Point with Marcia Kramer - 7.27.25

Published July 27, 2025 | Video Starts at 04:32

They're in the real estate business. Pay your fair share of taxes and we'll have more than enough to hire 7,000 police that we desperately need. And then We got to get them their qualified immunity that was stripped of them by the state legislature, Cuomo, the city council in 2019. That's why. What do you mean by qualified immunity for cops? That is the insurance that every civil servant has. (04:32–04:41)

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Asserts that qualified immunity for police was removed by the state legislature, Cuomo, and the city council in 2019.

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“The corporate tax rate is like 17.4% between the city and the city, the state and the city gets 9% of it.”
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“Miami, 5.5%.”
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“Two thirds of the students who go to fourth grade can't read at grade level, write at grade level, do math at grade level.”
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“One third of the students are not even there each day.”
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“They have 200 schools with 200 or less students and they won't consolidate them.”
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“Justin Brannon gave them a $1.4 billion, 34 year contract.”
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“Corporations will pick up and leave as they've already been doing in the last two years of Eric Adams.”
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“Zorhan Mandami... He's in Uganda, where they kill gays and lesbians.”
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“You're paying more in property taxes, small business owners, mid sized business owners [in the outer boroughs].”
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“I'm going to add 7,000 cops.”
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“One third of the students are truants every day.”
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“There are 13 deputy chancellors. Nobody knows who they are. 50 department heads at the Tweet courthouse.”
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“He had Banks, the corrupt chancellor who fled.”
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“He had Tracy, the girlfriend who was there for two and a half years, no show job, living in apartment 22 Hill in Fort Lee.”
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“Ever since Cuomo said during the lockdown and pandemic, you don't need to come to school.”
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“We start cutting the budget of the Department of Education.”
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“The mayor should have to meet with [parent councils]. This mayor never meets with the parents.”
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“I'm a major party candidate. The Republican Party candidate.”
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“28% plus increasing numbers of independents, moderate Democrats.”
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“I have the first ever independent protect animals line.”
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“Mondame, Adams and Cuomo, believe that migrants should vote. Not me.”
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“Eric Adams could have put it on the ballot as part of charter revision. Twice. He wouldn't put it on.”
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“If you've received matching funds and you drop out, you got to give it all back.”
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“Adams hasn't done any fair enforcement.”
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“Cuomo, when he was governor, hasn't done anything [about fare enforcement].”
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“We had 20 years of Republican mayors, 12 years of a Republican governor. We had no chaos, no corruption.”
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“Animal care and control... I'm putting them out of business. That is the worst shelter system in the country.”
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“Animal Care and Control [in New York City] said that they couldn't receive any more animals because they only have slots for thousand.”
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“We kill so many animals needlessly on a budget of 57 million.”
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“Over at Animal Care and Control, they only had three shelters. They closed the one in Brooklyn.”
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“They got a shoebox in Staten Island.”
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“We have 88 horses that did crowd control, especially when there are rampaging mobs. You know, we don't use the horses any longer.”
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“There are 350 neighborhoods [in New York City].”
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“I finished third in [Nathan's famous hot dog eating contest] in 1996.”
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