Jacob Frey: “When you have hundreds of fewer officers than you need, you…”

“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. 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.” (28:30–28:38)

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