NYC mayoral hopeful Scott Stringer sets ambitious goal of hiring 3K cops: ‘We need to make people feel safe’

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NYC mayoral hopeful Scott Stringer sets ambitious goal of hiring 3K cops: ‘We need to make people feel safe’
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Scott Stringer and family on 2021 election day for NYC Mayor

New York City mayoral hopeful Scott Stringer is setting an ambitious — and potentially unattainable — goal of hiring 3,000 cops to backfill the depleted NYPD ranks and assign officers to each subway train as he ramps up his campaign to challenge Mayor Eric Adams.

At the same time, the Adams administration has had to surge cops onto the streets to combat gun violence and into the subway system to combat random attacks. The vast majority of those assignments have been mandatory extra time, sending overtime skyrocketing.address to put a cop on every subway train every night — a plan cops have said is nearly impossible at current staffing levels.

Stringer now argues that the forced extra work has driven morale to historic lows, prompting cops to put in their papers in droves.His other keys to recruitment, though, appear to steal a page from the Adams administration’s playbook: paying cops more, and discussing four-day workweeks.The safety plan, which calls for a deputy mayor to address quality-of-life issues, was released a day after his own poll leaked out, which had him trailing former Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

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