That will not happen on my watch.īut we will still have the largest police department in the country after I do that.
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Because what we need in a mental health crisis incident is a professional who has signed up for the job of helping people who have mental health issues, and getting more trauma-informed care in the schools.Īnd I'm also going to make sure that we're doubling the number of summer youth employment in communities that have the highest joblessness and hopelessness, because we can't afford to lose a generation of our kids. What we need is to right size the police department.Īnd I'm going to spend a billion dollars, reallocated from the police department budget, in order to invest in childcare, in order to ensure that people have mental health services, and that we have mental health crisis response. And Mayor Michael Bloomberg bragged, when he was mayor, that if it was an army, because it's the size of an army, it would be seventh in the world. But let's just be honest: It's a bloated budget.
Wiley: Well, first of all, we've actually seen that the city hasn't substantially reduced the size of the New York City Police Department budget.
Kramer: Next question, how do you square reducing the size of the police department budget, which has already been reduced by the city with the need to keep the city safe and to end gun violence? So I'm appointing a "New Deal New York" czar, I call my plan a "New Deal for New York." But that's someone who'd be a direct report to me that makes sure we're busting through the red tape of government and getting the job done so people can get back to work and we can build what we need built. The problem is we don't spend the money fast enough. And some of this borrowing is already accounted for in the budget because we already have $5 billion of capital construction borrowing. Wiley: So the short answer is, this is the best time to do this kind of borrowing. Kramer: But aren't you taking on debt service for a long period of time that could affect ongoing budgets? So it's smart borrowing and smart spending that invests in our people and our future. Money has never been cheaper, and this is the kind of borrowing that also stimulates the economy, because we're creating jobs, and that also brings our dollars back to our coffers. And I've stress tested this with economists. I'm going to double the budget and increase it. Wiley: So the $10 billion is our capital construction budget.
Kramer: So where will the $10 billion to create the jobs come from? And that's what trauma informed care can do. You know, we have to bring violence down and send graduation rates up. But we're also going to invest in trauma-informed care in our schools. We are going to focus the police department on keeping illegal guns out of our city and off our streets. And it's so critical for all our communities. So we're going to create universal care centers, which will be drop-off centers for child care and elder care, and $5,000 grants for the neediest New Yorkers, to make sure that all of our residents can care for their people.īut I'm not going to stop there, and gun violence is a critically important issue to me. But we also have women who've lost far too much time and dollars in the workforce, because care is unpaid work. Like more deeply affordable housing, so that people can actually afford the rent.īut I'm also going to make sure we're creating a universal care plan, because childcare is one of the top three costs of living in the city. And that's going to be building things we need built, and fixing things we need fixed. Wiley: Day one starts with spending $10 billion to create 100,000 new jobs.
First question, should you get elected mayor, what would be your three top priorities on day one?
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