First of all, we've invested an enormous amount of money overall in public safety. Nearly $3 billion, unprecedented numbers dedicated to all aspects of fighting crime and making our neighborhood safer. But with respect to retail theft, We established teams to go into neighborhoods. I had 100 people from state police alone to work with the mayor and the mayor's office. to try to address this. We had a joint, first ever joint operation, joint operation on retail theft. And then we said, as I passed, we passed stronger laws, we had to make the penalties higher for assaults on retail workers. (01:49–01:58)
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