Cuomo praises Adams plan to hire 5K more NYPD cops and blasts Mamdani as “against” the police

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Andrew Cuomo praised Mayor Eric Adams on Saturday for rolling out a plan to hire an additional 5,000 police officers — a move aimed at boxing Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani before Tuesday’s election. “We have one of the lowest levels of police officers in modern political history. We’re losing police officers — one of the highest rates of attrition — because they’re so short staffed they have to work all the time,” the former governor said. “They’re working weekends, they’re working