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Eric Adams: “Once you get to your first year, you see a substantial…”

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Eric Adams Discusses New York City's Future Amidst Mayoral Race Against Zoran Mamdani

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Yeah, but it bumped, you know, because it is the salary. After you go to the entry level, you go through the academy. We pay out officers while they're in the academy. And then Once you get to your first year, you see a substantial increase in the salary by the time you get to your max. Yeah. Okay, so around 4400. Now, can you see historically, Rob, like, how many. So if I look at 2000 peak staffing in 2000 for cops, NYPD was 40,000. (50:55–51:03)

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