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Eric Adams: “When I was a police officer, we were doing almost a million…”

Featuring: Eric Adams, Democratic | Mayor of New York

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Mayor Eric Adams Makes Public Safety and Quality of Life Announcement with Commissioner Tisch

Published | Video Starts at 34:05

They go to court. Some of them go through the full scope of the court, and they're final settled in the meantime. What I do know is that When I was a police officer, we were doing almost a million stops and stop questioning. Frisk you, do an analysis. Now there's a different response. Quality precision policing is allowing us to get the results without harassing the communities that are involved. (34:05–34:11)

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Asserts that nearly a million stops and stop-questioning incidents occurred during his time as a police officer.

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