NYC Mayor Commits to Goal of Cutting $1 Billion From NYPD

On the eve of a budget showdown, Mayor Bill de Blasio said the City is prepared to meet the demands of protesters by cutting $1 billion from the New York City Police Department.
Negotiations are expected up to the last minute on a highly scrutinized budget forced to respond to the devastation of the coronavirus pandemic and weeks of protests by New Yorkers calling to defund the police.
Mayor Bill de Blasio would not detail a breakdown of the where in the department's budget the $1 billion would come from, citing ongoing negotiations with council members, but said "overtime is always an area where we want to do better."




The budget proposal has shrunk by $8 billion since February, before the pandemic hit, de Blasio said.
"My office presented to the City Council a plan that would achieve a billion dollars in savings for the NYPD and shift resources to young people, to communities in a way that would help address a lot of the underlying issues that we know are the cause of so many problems in our society," de Blasio said.
The budget proposal achieves "real reform, real redistribution" while keeping the city safe, the mayor said. A percentage of the funding redistributed from the police department will go toward youth recreation centers and NYCHA.
De Blasio says the help is missing to make up for the budget deficit created by the pandemic. The federal government, he says, "has been MIA." The mayor wants to pursue long-term borrowing, but says the State Senate has not be willing to approve the City's request.
"The State Assembly was there with us every step of the way, I want to think Speaker Carl Heastie and members of the Assembly. They were ready to come to the aid of New York City in our hour of need, the Senate was not," de Blasio said.
President Patrick Lynch of the NYPD's police union hinted the department's headcount is threatened by the proposed budget cut and claimed the current officer count is not enough to meet the demand of the city.
"Mayor de Blasio's message to New Yorkers today was clear: you will have fewer cops on your streets. Shootings more than doubled again last week. Even right now, the NYPD doesn't have enough manpower to shift cops to one neighborhood without making another neighborhood less safe," Lynch said in a statement.
New York City shootings over the last seven days skyrocketed by more than 127% compared with the same time period in 2019, from just 26 last year to 59 in 2020, according to NYPD data obtained by News 4.
Police reform advocates have called for the city's nearly $6 billion police budget needs to be significantly slashed and reinvested into housing, health care, other social services and communities impacted by police misconduct.
After hundreds of demonstrators marched across the city again for hours on Tuesday, dozens of them stayed behind and slept on benches and in sleeping bags on the grassy area outside of City Hall. The group has varied in size, but hundreds have been camped out every day since.
The police department's budget has ballooned from about $3 billion in 2000 to nearly $5.7 billion in the current fiscal year.
Some of that increase has come from taking over policing functions from other agencies. In the mid-1990s, the department absorbed the city's then-separate housing and transit police departments. In 1998 it took over school safety functions from the Education Department.
The Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks led to increased spending on special NYPD units, including counterterrorism and intelligence.




mayor DumBlasio is caving to the terrorists who want an open city like chop in Seattle. so terroists can run wild to riot,oot, rape, murder, steal at will
And - are being supported by the NYC elected oficial stooges.

welcome to Marxism- NYC.

watch Wall street and the Stock market be detroyed by terrorists - and dumblasio and cuomo care not.

soon there wil be no NYC cops - consistent with dumblasio's policy of encouraging terrorists to dump bbuckets of water on the NYPD with no repercusions.

Who wants to serve in uch a climate where the officials hate You for what You are hired to do.

I look forward to the NYC DemLibs getting a good idea of what their dumbass ideas will enable.

Knock off a few million white folks by OBLM ini NYC - show the world what Marxist racial-baiting groups are about.

OBLM won't get their 50 million caucasian executions in NYC - but they will get a few million.

With AK's from China and Russia!!!
Congress EmLibs are all for it - as long as their hamptons homes ae not touched.

Problem - when the DemLibs unleash their terrorists - they foolishly think they will be able to control them
fat F...ing chance.

It will be a shithole in a year. Maybe less.

On the eve of a budget showdown, Mayor Bill de Blasio said the City is prepared to meet the demands of protesters by cutting $1 billion from the New York City Police Department.... Originally Posted by oeb11

Yet another shooting behind the duck move. They won't need to cut one red cent from the police budget. They will save more than that in reduced head count salaries and related equipment from all the cops that will be leaving.What are they up to now, something close to 300?

And just like that "Deathwish" was a relevant movie again. I'm really excited to see the porn places coming back to Times Square... I got to visit NYC a lot when Guiliani came into office... all the strip joints got closed. It was quite an education for an 18 year old kid... finding out that the downstairs of those places was where the Trannies worked - yes I found out the hard way... no pun intended!

It will be a shithole in a year. Maybe less. Originally Posted by bambino

So will Houston. The Dims goal is to drive the blue states and municipalities into backruptcy. Once that happens there won't be enough money to recover. Can't print it fast enough. Can't tax it enough.

All because "we don't want the hospitals to be overwhelmed." We're fucked.

So will Houston. The Dims goal is to drive the blue states and municipalities into backruptcy. Once that happens there won't be enough money to recover. Can't print it fast enough. Can't tax it enough.

All because "we don't want the hospitals to be overwhelmed." We're fucked. Originally Posted by gnadfly

Houston already is. NYC isn’t far behind.

Is it just me, or do black people ruin everything?

That's actually not true.

Some black people as well as white people and other kinds of people who identify as some kind of collective consciousness are being used to destroy the world under the guise of retaliation and progress.

Is it just me, or do black people ruin everything?

That's actually not true.

Some black people as well as white people and other kinds of people who identify as some kind of collective consciousness are being used to destroy the world under the guise of retaliation and progress. Originally Posted by yitzchak

No, white politicians ruin it for black people.

No, white politicians ruin it for black people. Originally Posted by bambino

racist white democratic politicans

For what, though? Aren't they already rich?
What do they get out of brain washing minorities and their so called allies?

Most police department are self funded, and a big source revenue for city, who you think I force property tax and the thousands other taxes, fees, fines, the city has. Police are cashier/salesmen at a point if gun. Tax the hell out police department, special tax on office income 200%

R- Please move to chop- U deserve to live in an area with no POLICE to protect U

Alrady multiple shooting murders in the enclave of the "peaceful terrorists"!

For what, though? Aren't they already rich?
What do they get out of brain washing minorities and their so called allies? Originally Posted by yitzchak

Slaves beholding to them. Just smart enough to perform their task, but no smarter than that

They should defund the city gerber ment

No, white politicians ruin it for black people. Originally Posted by bambino

White liberals benefit greatly from all the race hustling going on - at the moment.

The revolution will eat its own someday, and I don't think we should save the white liberals when their time comes...