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Eric Adams: “You got 7,100 people [at Rikers].”

Featuring: Eric Adams, Democratic | Mayor of New York

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But people are caught on the romanticism of we close Rikers because they think. That it will do something. It's like, it's not solving your problem, brother. You got 7,100 people [at Rikers]. And so I asked them, well, what are you gonna do with the other 7,100? Well, why you can't just let them go. You know what you gotta do to go to Rikers nowadays. (1:36:05–1:36:08)

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