We are badly Un understaffed. We need to get police officers in the subways actually patrolling the moving cars where people are most threatened and most frightened. And We need to bring back the Homeless Outreach Unit that was disbanded when de Blasio took a billion dollars out of the budget. These were men and women police officers who already had with them medical nurses and health care practitioners, but it was de Blasio who abolished it. (47:18–47:26)
CLAIM
Asserts that the Homeless Outreach Unit was disbanded due to a budget cut by de Blasio.
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