Your plan includes hiring more cops. I think every one of the candidates start with the premise that we need to hire more cops. Why is that? Well, We saw pre pandemic in 2018, the last time our police count was closer to 36,000, that we had some of the lowest crime rates in the city's history. I will also point out that we saw some of the lower rates of stop and frisk. And so there is this notion that these two things cannot coexist, that you cannot hold police accountable while increasing the police headcount. (24:58–25:08)
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