Mamdani, Who Called for Defunding Police, Laments 200 NYPD Officers Are Leaving Every Month

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MAMDANI: “We know it is one that also comes from listening to officers themselves. Two hundred officers are leaving the department every month. A leading cause of their departure is forced overtime. And the fact that every year we ask them to take on additional responsibilities. We are making it more and more difficult for them to respond to the very responsibilities that drew them to the job in the first place. And I think about the seven major categories of crime as listed in CompStat. That is not the full extent of what we ask officers to do.”