Michael Blake: “When you have $1.4 billion of overtime that was spent at…”

“Maybe if we spent more time making sure our kid had a book in their book bag rather than trying to arrest them for a dime bag, things would be different in our community. And so, yes, we got to cut funding. When you have $1.4 billion of overtime that was spent at NYPD that had nothing to do with public safety... if you take those kinds of resources, then we could actually have heat and hot water at NYCHA facilities. Then you can actually have people having jobs and higher wages.” (06:51–06:58)

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