Scott Stringer: “We should hire 3,000 cops.”

“And there's this new idea now to have this involuntary removals of some of the folks on the subways. 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.” (07:30–07:33)

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