Zohran Mamdani: “200 officers are leaving the department every month.”

“Look, there is much that you go through in contract negotiations with each and every union across this city. What I've said time and again is when we're looking at why 200 officers are leaving the department every month. One of the leading causes in that is forced overtime. And when we ask ourselves, how do we make it such that this is a job that is also one …” (09:11–09:14)

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