Jacob Frey: “The literal cost of each officer within a contract has also…”

“We have increased training for each officer. That costs additional money. We have increased compliance for each officer. That costs additional money. The literal cost of each officer within a contract has also gone up. And, yeah, you can't expect additional service and not expect to pay for it. And as the chief mentioned, when you have hundreds of fewer officers than you need, you need necessarily to bring people in for overtime.” (28:15–28:20)

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