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Jacob Frey: “In Operation Metro Surge alone, there was something like…”

Featuring: Jacob Frey, Democratic–Farmer–Labor | Mayor of Minneapolis | Minnesota

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LIVE | Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey makes announcement on future of MPD Chief Brian O'Hara

Published | Video Starts at 28:37

And as the chief mentioned, when you have hundreds of fewer officers than you need, you need necessarily to bring people in for overtime. In Operation Metro Surge alone, there was something like 1000 days off that were cancelled. When you bring those officers in for 1,000 days off, you pay them overtime. It costs more money. (28:37–28:44)

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