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🗓️ 22 November 2020
⏱️ 10 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the Jill on Money Podcast. It is Sunday, November 22nd. And today we are |
0:10.6 | airing the second part of our interview with William J. Bratton, a law enforcement |
0:17.5 | expert. |
0:18.5 | Yeah, he ran the big police forces in New York and LA and Boston. |
0:23.8 | Yesterday we talked a little bit about, |
0:25.8 | kind of the state of policing. |
0:28.1 | Today, we're focusing on how the financial fallout from COVID-19 could really impact so many of the police forces |
0:39.4 | around the United States. |
0:41.8 | And you know, I think that this is really important because this often happens |
0:45.9 | where we're talking about you know stimulus is a good is a bad well stimulus might save a |
0:52.1 | cop's job or a firefighter's job or a firefighter's job or a teacher's job. |
0:56.0 | This is what's so important. |
0:58.0 | So here is the rest of our interview with Bill Bratton. |
1:02.0 | The financial fallout for all of these states and cities is dramatic and if we don't get money |
1:11.2 | into the state coffers, then many of these municipalities will be under pressure. |
1:17.1 | So I'm wondering if you think about a massive budget cut coming for many of these cities unless there is more stimulus from the government. |
1:27.1 | What is it that you would do if you were stuck in that position of managing amid budget cuts at this critical time. |
1:34.4 | Well, I've had that experience in Boston in 1980. |
1:38.3 | I was the superintendent and chief, |
1:39.8 | the number two position in that department. |
1:42.0 | We went through a tax initiated crises where the |
1:48.4 | city budget was reduced by 25% because of a cap on real estate tax. And we had to lay off 25% of the Boston Police |
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