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

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NYC Mayor Eric Adams Announces Expansion Of NYPD's Quality Of Life Teams On Staten Island

Published | Video Starts at 32:37

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. (32:37–32:45)

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Asserts that nearly a million stop-and-frisk incidents occurred when he was a police officer.

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