But you have said that you do want to reduce the budget for overtime at the NYQV instead. What exactly is the difference between defunding the police and that? And how would that have clinically prevented and happened yesterday? Calling for a reduction in overtime is a call that nearly every candidate has made over the course of this campaign, and even Mayor Adams ran on in 2021, pledging, I think, to cut it in half within a short period of time. And what it speaks to is not just the way in which that we have seen that number rise year after year without any attempt at answering the cause of … (29:58–30:16)
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