Jacob Frey: “We need to right size how we look at the cost of each…”

“… president to work with council to be sort of realistic about what that budget should be? Yeah. Yes. I'll start by answering and can pass it off to the chief. We need to right size how we look at the cost of each individual officer, because it's gone up over the last several years, and necessarily so. 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.” (27:57–28:05)

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