You could shoot somebody in the face in Times Square and it was decriminalized, and you're gonna let them out and you're gonna have community policing and all sorts of nonsense. I mean, He ran on the premise of literally emptying Rikers Island. So you had no criminals in there. Yet 34 felonies in a six month period of time is shutting down New York and the FDR drive every day over $100,000. I mean, it wasn't believable. (28:22–28:28)
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