Yusuf Abdul-Qadir: what percent of the police live in the city?
Yusuf Abdul-Qadir: 5%, so 95% donβt live in the city.
Yusuf Abdul-Qadir: so when you say that the vast majority of the percentage goes towards salaries, et cetera, fringe benefits, that means that they take their money on 81, go to outside the city, pay taxes in those communities that have some of the best schools while we have an underfunded school district--
someone else: $60 million up.
Yusuf Abdul-Qadir: so i just want to put into context what weβre talking about, because itβs really easy to say, mayor-- and with all due respect, i like you. but that was a very politician answer.
mayor: sorry, what specifically?
Yusuf Abdul-Qadir: the, βwe will consider, and we will look.β what weβre saying is weβre not interested in considering and looking. what weβre saying is, actually, thereβs $50 million. commit to $20 million cut, because weβre sending money-- as the mayor of Syracuse, when you donβt have a tax base, youβre sending money out of Syracuse. and not just for 30 years-- for the rest of their life because their pensions, their health insurance, their families. so we are funding for other peopleβs communities to have the promise of the American dream while we are denying it in our community. thatβs the context that you, as the mayor, have to look at this under.
so when we talk about renegotiating union contract, what weβre saying is you canβt play around with, βmaybe, um, we will--β no. yβall got to go, because you donβt provide a service that is beneficial to the community, that is meaningful to the community. the services that you provide criminalize our community, impoverish our community, reallocate resources to suburbs. we are actually funding the suburbs, both in our police departments and in our schools.
and to be clear, just to be clear, itβs not just the fact of, like, the percentage of people. weβre also funding what race of people are on the police force, the percentage of race of teachers, as well, superintendent, board president. so we want to put in context, because itβs not just a class issue. itβs a race issue. weβre telling black and brown people and poor people, you donβt matter. the devilβs in the data and in the details, mayor. respectfully, it is not acceptable for us to be here considering.]
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