Zohran Mamdani: “Many officers who are leaving the department, of which we…”

“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 it, but also to what I was saying earlier, which is that Many officers who are leaving the department, of which we see 200 every single month, cite forced overtime as a reason that they depart. because they do not know when their shift will end. They are working doubles, they are working triples. And we are asking these officers to do far more than any one person should be doing.” (30:31–30:42)

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