Curtis Sliwa: “We need 7,000 police officers. We are badly understaffed.”

“I've yet to hear from one New Yorker who said they feel safer either in the subways or the streets. And Eric Adams constantly hackering at us like it's the perception. The perception. Oh, it's the reality of crime. We need 7,000 police officers. We are badly understaffed. We need to get police officers in the subways actually patrolling the moving cars where people are most threatened and most frightened.” (47:04–47:10)

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