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Scott Stringer: “Reduce the overtime from $1.3 billion back down to 650…”

Featuring: Scott Stringer, Democratic | Former Candidate, Mayor of New York City

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Scott Stringer Discusses Mayoral Campaign, Immigration, and Housing in New York City

Published | Video Starts at 07:34

How aggressive would you be in that plan? And where would those folks go? Look, I've said we should hire 3,000 cops. Certainly that would help us Reduce the overtime from $1.3 billion back down to 650 million. So we would save $650 million. But those extra police officers could then be used to ride the trains so that people feel saf safe and there's a watchful eye. (07:34–07:39)

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Claims hiring more police would reduce overtime costs by $650 million.

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