The New York City Police Department is the largest police department in the United States…
It employs over 53,000 people, of which 38,000 are sworn officers….
It’s budget was 5.6 Billion last year….
After all the protesting against cops and the defund the the police rallies?
The mayor said he’d cut the police budget by roughly 20%….
One Billion dollar’s….
Most people in the know KNEW that was just NOT a valid goal….
Turns they where right….
Contrary to the media and protestor’s?
Very few if ANY places/officals/lawmakers are gonna cut their police departments back…
Most Americans do NOT want them to….
And Crime has risen in a lot off places after the protests ended….
NYC is lesson why it won’t be done….
Gotham’s top budget watchdog projected Tuesday that the New York Police Department will blow its new overtime cap by $400 million, effectively undoing the biggest proposed spending cut the department faced in the city’s new budget.
“The budget adopted last month assumes that overtime spending by the NYPD will fall to $268 million in 2021,” the Independent Budget Office wrote in its analysis of the deal struck by Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Corey Johnson in June, much of it triggered by the Black Lives Matter movement to reduce police funding.
“IBO estimates that police spending on overtime will be $400 million more than budgeted,” the report reveals.
That would mean that overall NYPD overtime spending would still reach at least $668 million in the 2021 budget. That’s down just slightly from the $736 million paid out during the 2019 budget.
Figures for the 2020 budget, which just concluded on June 30, were not immediately available.
The IBO’s report will likely re-inflame the contentious dispute over this year’s budget that ended with a hard-fought deal that purportedly cut or transferred $835 million in direct spending from the NYPD’s budget in response to the police killing of George Floyd in Minnesota and the nationwide marches that resulted from it.
It’s the second major component of the package to come under scrutiny from the press and government oversight groups. All told, $659 million of the cuts and transfers have now been called into question.
Activists who hit the streets of the Big Apple following the Floyd killing were demanding cuts of at least $1 billion and a major reduction or restructuring of the NYPD’s workforce — and found allies among liberal lawmakers on the council, including Speaker Corey Johnson.
However, they ran into intense opposition from de Blasio and many black and Latino lawmakers from traditionally working-class neighborhoods that are still scarred by the memories of New York City’s epic battles with crime during the 1970s and 1980s.
The resulting deal promised to slash overtime by $352 million, shift $307 million in spending to the Education Department to pay for school safety agents and save another $55 million by canceling one cadet class, which would shrink the NYPD’s 36,000-strong headcount by 1,163.
It also proposed shifting crossing guards to another undetermined agency, transferring another $42 million off the NYPD’s ledger.
Activists said the cuts largely amounted to gimmicks and budget tricks, pointing out that the NYPD had promised for years to rein in overtime to no avail….
Note…
The irony ?
Defund the police protest’s actually enrich the cops and cancel out almost ANY savings officials might try to make with cuts in their police departments….
Thank you Donald Trump.
You are really going to hate the Democratic Party platform.
No major Democrat is for defunding the police …
Not Biden, Sanders, Pelosi …..
It will not be in the party platform…
Don’t matter anyways …..
Anybody remember the last Democratic platform stuff?
Certainly there are opportunities to move responsibilities to other departments, and the more progressive cities will do that, although I still maintain that the word “defund” is misleading.
For example, if someone is standing at the top of a bridge and threatening to jump off, we should call a mental health expert, not the police.
These calls to defund the police are really cries to change the culture.
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If someone is gonna jump?
The Cops and the Fire Dept GO FIRST….
Their job is get the person down…
THEN the others get the person…
THAT IS the hard procedure and will NOT change…
That is dangerous situation for everyone involved….
I agree with ya on the second part….
There DOES need to be a culture change within law enforcement …
But the basic job and first responder responsibilities are NOT gonna change…
The Democratic platform will not use the term “defund” that seems to drive you nuts.
It will however contain some rather strong language concerning long overdue reforms of Police departments throughout the country.
Thoughtful people on both aisles understand the need for such.
You and Donald Trump Don’t.
Yes I was on a Zoom call with the candidate running for Circuit Attorney here in St. Louis–Mary Pat Carl– she is seen as the more moderate Democrat as opposed to incumbent Kim Gardner.
She endorsed the umbrella efforts to shift funds to social workers and other policing reforms. She said as she does not have the same info that the current CA has she could not answer as to whether she would have charged the McCloskeys in the weapon brandishing, but she did say the Governor’s promise of a pardon was just playing partisan politics as he doesn’t know the facts of the situation either.
Overall I was impressed and plan to vote for her in the Democratic Primary next month
She loses by at least 20 points is my guess.
Who loses by 20 points?
the challenger
Do you have any inside knowledge you are basing that on?
Because I live here and I honestly think it’s jump ball at this point.
Gardner has not really campaigned much–she does have surrogates like my state rep and others talking her up.
Carl has been doing a lot of advertising, meeting with neighborhood groups, etc.
Most city voters (and people overall) think the McCloskey’s are obnoxious people–but Gardner charging them is seen by many as grandstanding to cover for her poor record over the last four years in office.
Just a guess. It’s hard to beat an incumbent in a D primary by running to the right.
Also, I think it would be tough for a white challenger to beat an African-American female incumbent in a D primary.
It’s just the city voting and not the suburbs?
Yes it’s just St. Louis city, which is an independent entity separate of STL County.
I wouldn’t say Carl is running to the right really.
Policy wise she and Gardner are actually pretty close.
Like many cities the African-American population in St. Louis has dropped in recent years as whites have moved back in to gentrified areas and blacks have left the more blighted neighborhoods in the north part of the city to suburbs just beyond the city limits.
I think it will really come down to how primary voters see Gardner’s high profile and whether they want more of that in the next four years.
Bless her Scott…
There has been considerable discussion about the defund push….
That is over….
Reforms ARE needed in culture and policy for police departments ….
Biden i’m sure will refrain from sending special response Fed’s into counties around the country to guard statues and freelance out into the streets…