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AGENCY TESTIMONY
The urgent need for leadership in closing Rikers Island
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Lippman stresses the critical need for urgent action and strong leadership to close Rikers Island. He emphasizes that delays in closing the facility are due to a lack of urgency and political will.
- Rikers is behind schedule for closure due to a lack of urgency and will from city leadership.
- The City Council is urged to continue its leadership and maintain pressure on this issue.
- Every day Rikers remains open puts human lives at stake and places the city in peril.
- Strong leadership from all current and future city office holders is necessary to close Rikers as soon as possible.
Jonathan Lippman
0:14:41
I would just remind you in my remarks that and and this is again not complicated.
0:14:48
I remind you that Reichers is behind schedule in terms of closing because of a lack of urgency and a lack of will.
0:15:00
It's as simple as that.
0:15:03
And the council should continue to exercise its terrific leadership in this area.
0:15:10
Keep the pedal to the metal or whatever the expression is.
0:15:16
Keep your leadership because what we need is that urgency and will now and each and every day.
0:15:26
Every day that miserable, horrible place is open.
0:15:31
Human beings' lives are at stake and the city is at peril.