Zohran Mamdani: “The NYPD has a retention crisis.”

“And for, frankly, the issue that we're facing is not the question of how many more officers we'll hire, but as you've said, how many officers will be able to keep. Because through the course of this last year, We've seen that The NYPD has a retention crisis. And it's a crisis that when you ask rank and file officers, it has less to do with the question of who the mayor is and more to do with the amount of work they're being asked to do.” (02:00–02:03)

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