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Jim Walden: “We have about 34,000 cops when we had 40,000 just four or…”

Featuring: Jim Walden, Attorney, Former Candidate, New York City Mayoral Election 2025

New York City Mayoral Candidate Jim Walden Discusses Public Safety, Education, and Transit Policies

Published April 14, 2025 | Video Starts at 02:30

And the scary statistic that you really should be paying attention to is not how many cops we have now, because now we're at an incredible low. Right. We have about 34,000 cops when we had 40,000 just four or five years before the pandemic. But with retirements and police officers looking to leave New York City, we could be down a total of 25% by the end of the year. That would be terrifying. (02:30–02:38)

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Asserts that the number of police officers in New York City has decreased from 40,000 to 34,000 since before the pandemic.

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