Jim Walden: “By the end of this year, we could be down as far as [a…”

“Tell us more about that. Well, we're at epically low levels with the police. I mean, we should be around 40,000 police officers. And By the end of this year, we could be down as far as [a significantly lower number of police officers]. So one of the problems with safety is just that we don't have enough officers. Just to show you how poorly managed the city is, if we took 56% of the overtime spend, we could hire 9,000 police officers at higher salaries.” (09:37–09:41)

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