Most candidates for mayor aren’t lining up to back ‘Defund the Police’
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After the guilty verdict of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd, some of the leading mayoral candidates reacted with renewed calls to reform the NYPD and increase police accountability.
NY1’s Zack Fink, Courtney Gross, and Juan Manuel Benítez explain what the mayoral hopefuls are proposing, and discuss the role that public safety is playing during this campaign cycle.
They also analyze what the results of our exclusive Spectrum News NY1/Ipsos poll reveal about the state of the race, now that Andrew Yang has positioned himself as the candidate to beat.
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