Jim Walden: “We have enough money to hire 9,000 police officers just with…”

“So what would you do? Day one? Day One, I would get safety in order. Number one, if our streets, our subways, our playgrounds are not safe, nothing else matters. So We have enough money to hire 9,000 police officers just with the overtime budget. If we use 56% of the overtime budget, we can recruit new police officers. One thing I would certainly do. Okay, so you never held office before.” (02:19–02:24)

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