Jim Walden: “If we took 56% of the overtime spend, we could hire 9,000…”

“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. So these are things that have been problems for years. No one's solving them. The Democrats didn't solve them and the Republicans when they left, left us with these problems.” (09:50–09:58)

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