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This comes with the announcement of the city's $11 million budget for its street cleaning initiatives.

Anything. his plan was just a lock everybody up. when you look at the nypd's own data, we don't have to do the analysis. they have already done it. we look at their own data. they see that murders are down 36% at the year today it. they are down 23% of the month today. they are down 11% year today. down at the 12 and the 29 -- murder is down right now, according to nypd's own data. it's really hard because the fearmongering or something people believe because they see these incidents. new york city is the biggest city in the country. the new york city police department's own data says that mur...

System in new york, which as you know, jim, it's the way people get around in new york. it's what makes new york possible. i was asking for a long time during the de blasio era, let's get the cops on the platforms and on the trains like the old days when you and i were growing up in new york, jim. that's what riders want, it's where they feel vulnerable, it's where bad stuff happens generally. the mayor has said to his police department that he wants cops on trains like he used to do when he was a transit cop. he wants cops on platforms. that's what we need. we also want to see an upsurge in o...

Of slipping down quality to his life. he was triggered by something. maybe trouble at work or something. >> dana: you are a lifelong new yorker. you have love this city. you spent your career in the nypd, recently retired peered michael goodwin and "the new york post" writes that after the latest bloodbath, time is running out for adams to save new york city. one of the things he asked about is, what is it like for an nypd officer to know that you could arrest somebody, and the next day they are out of the street. >> it's very frustrating. it's only been a hundred days. i think it's incumbent ...

That retired early that didn't feel like the city had their back under mayor de blasio. do you see any change in that, sir? >> it's still a huge problem. they're brain drained. we lost a lot of people that were police officers for a long time. i'm told over 5,000 police officers either retired or resigned in the 1 1/2 years period of time. what about all of that expertise? what about all of that experience? new york is not any safer. and the restrictions placed on the police officer. for instance, they can't use qualified immunity if they're sued. these are things that discourage officers from...