Eric Adams: “You don't drive down homicides and shootings to the low…”

“I think it's really careless of not having the full scope and understanding what public safety is. You don't take 17,000 illegal guns off the street unless you have the police personnel to do so. You don't drive down homicides and shootings to the low, lowest levels and rebuild confidence on our subway system by not having the physical presence and the visible presence of a police officer. Well, part of the job, obviously, of being mayor of New York City, you deal a lot with homelessness. Yes. And the cost of one unhoused individual right now in New York City per year is somewhere around $81,700.” (03:16–03:29)

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