Mayoral candidate Scott Stringer outlines an eight-point strategy to address the NYPD's recruitment and retention issues. With a significant workforce reduction, the plan focuses on attracting new officers through a robust marketing effort and ensuring current officers remain engaged and valued. Stringer's proposals include on-site daycare for officers' children to aid working parents and reducing mandatory overtime. His approach aims to improve morale and promote a diverse workforce, particularly to support the growing number of female officers. Stringer claims his patience and expertise qualify him as the candidate best suited to revitalize the NYPD.
"Improving public safety requires ensuring our city has enough officers on the beat, and the truth is, it's not just budgetary restrictions preventing us from having the amount of officers we need; it's a recruitment and retention crisis," Stringer said.
"I am the only candidate with the patience and skills to implement a recruitment and retention plan to ensure we have a truly world-class force to keep New York City safe."
"To improve morale and help with the challenges of raising a family as a cop, Stringer wants to create on-site daycare programs to retain the female members of the force, who make up just over a fifth of the workforce."
"The plan hinges upon a massive recruitment campaign - which Stringer says will be a combination of grassroots outreach and advertising - pitching potential hires on the NYPD being the top place to police."
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