Yusuf Abdul-Qadir: what percent of the police live in the city?
Yusuf Abdul-Qadir: 5%, so 95% donât 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 weâre talking about, because itâs 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, âwe will consider, and we will look.â what weâre saying is weâre not interested in considering and looking. what weâre saying is, actually, thereâs $50 million. commit to $20 million cut, because weâre sending money-- as the mayor of Syracuse, when you donât have a tax base, youâre 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 peopleâs communities to have the promise of the American dream while we are denying it in our community. thatâs the context that you, as the mayor, have to look at this under.
so when we talk about renegotiating union contract, what weâre saying is you canât play around with, âmaybe, um, we will--â no. yâall got to go, because you donât 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, itâs not just the fact of, like, the percentage of people. weâre 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 itâs not just a class issue. itâs a race issue. weâre telling black and brown people and poor people, you donât matter. the devilâs in the data and in the details, mayor. respectfully, it is not acceptable for us to be here considering.]
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