Our community can't go into making sure that some homeless person is not defecating on their street corners or sitting in their schoolyard. Our communities will impact be impacted by these policies that idealism collides with realism. So I'm not in favor of defunding our public safety apparatus. I'm not in favor of we got 7,400 people on Rikers Island. He says right away he wants to get 3,000 off. You know, I'm not in favor of that. (34:54–34:59)
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Asserts that Eric Adams is not in favor of defunding public safety.
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