Zohran Mamdani: “200 officers are leaving a month, nearly a quarter are…”

“And yet it's often framed as if it's oppositional. But if you want to be honest about the state of the NYPD, you will know that 200 officers are leaving a month, nearly a quarter are thinking of leaving, and one of the leading reasons is forced overtime. And so when you have candidates like Eric Adams and Andrew Cuomo telling you that they want police to do everything, that actually goes against what police want to do.” (27:36–27:45)

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