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City Council passes budget with $1 billion NYPD cut

  
Via:  Vic Eldred  •  4 years ago  •  19 comments

By:   Nolan Hicksand Kenneth Garger (New York Post)

City Council passes budget with $1 billion NYPD cut
The effects will include, in part, reducing overtime by $352 million and trimming the size of the police force by 1,163 cops, which de Blasio insisted would not decrease public safety despite a recent surge in shootings.

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The New York City Council passed the city's $88.1 billion budget just after midnight Wednesday with hopes to solve the Big Apple's $9 billion budget shortfall — in part by slashing NYPD spending by $1 billion.

The deal became official once Councilwoman Deborah Rose became the 26th council member to vote in favor of the budget — representing a majority of the 51-person legislative body.

"Today is not a day of celebration, we are not in a time of celebration, it is the time of necessity and today's budget agreement is one of necessity," Council Speaker Corey Johnson said following the vote.

"Heart-wrenching, impossible choices had to be made. It was not easy," Johnson added.

The substantial cuts to the NYPD came in response to demonstrations seeking to defund the department in the wake of George Floyd's death at the hands of police in Minneapolis.

The effects will include, in part, reducing overtime by $352 million and trimming the size of the police force by 1,163 cops, which de Blasio insisted would not decrease public safety despite a recent surge in shootings.

A large chunk of the NYPD cuts — $349.5‬ million — was realized by transferring the department's school safety and crossing guard functions to other city agencies.

Johnson promised the shift was indicative of a larger policy shift in how schools and students are policed.

The budget passed by a final vote of 32-17, with one member absent and another seat empty.

One of the most shocking votes of the night was cast by Councilman Donovan Richards (D-Queens), who voted against the budget deal.

"My concern with this budget is not just about the $1 billion cut, but more about the NYPD's culture," said Richards, the chairman of the committee that oversees the NYPD and the prohibitive favorite to become the next Queens Borough President.

"A $1 billion budget cut can't address the racism that runs rampant in the NYPD," he said.

"We must send a clear message that it's not okay to kettle peaceful protestors, that it's not okay to place black and brown New Yorkers in a chokehold as they gasp for air."

Added Richards: "We must send a clear message that it's not okay to shoot unarmed black men like Sean Bell and Ramarley Graham"

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Councilman I. Daneek Miller, a Democrat from Brooklyn, voted in favor of the budget, but voiced his opposition to downsizing the NYPD.

"Black folks want to be safe like everyone else, we just want to be respected," Miller said. "We can't allow folks from outside our community to lecture us about Black lives and what we need in our communities."

Johnson said he was ultimately "disappointed" with the budget, saying he wanted deeper cuts to the NYPD and a larger reduction of its force.

"This is a budget process that involves the Mayor who would not budge on these items," the speaker said.

Hizzoner has maintained that the cuts wouldn't "undermine our counterterrorism capacity" in a city that is a constant target and where just last month ago a man attacked cops while shouting "Allahu Akhbar" in Brooklyn.

"It won't be easy. We're asking a lot of the NYPD, but the NYPD is up to the mission. I don't have a doubt in my mind," the mayor said. "They will find a way to be more effective and efficient, they have for years, and they will keep us safe."


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Vic Eldred
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1  seeder  Vic Eldred    4 years ago

And the beat goes on in cities under progressive rule across the country.

Where are the people who told me that no police jobs would be cut?


Trump is off topic

 
 
 
JumpDrive
Freshman Silent
1.1  JumpDrive  replied to  Vic Eldred @1    4 years ago
Where are the people who told me that no police jobs would be cut?

First, the lead in quote "...and trimming the size of the police force by 1,163 cops" is misleading at best, they were planning to hire these guys, but they don't have the money. Also, about half of the billion is sleight of hand, they are moving cops to other departments, so NYPD's budget shrinks. The city has a 9 billion shortfall, in no small part due to the virus.

The people running the city are under pressure to "defund the police" which they don't want to do. One democrat was explaining that defunding the police will not change the culture/eliminate systemic racism, which is what they need to do.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
1.1.1  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  JumpDrive @1.1    4 years ago
One democrat was explaining that defunding the police will not change the culture/eliminate systemic racism, which is what they need to do.

Tell him/her for me that there is no systemic racism in the NYPD and setting budgets based on signs at protests is an idiotic idea.

 
 
 
Sparty On
Professor Principal
2  Sparty On    4 years ago

Burn baby burn .... watch violent crime accelerate even faster now in NYC.   Perhaps they can use the money saved to buy everyone GIQ's every night and hope they are too messed up to really hurt anything or anyone.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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2.1  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  Sparty On @2    4 years ago
watch violent crime accelerate even faster now in NYC. 

They already have:

As calls from the Left intensify to   abolish the police , and New York City takes action to remove officers and dismantle vital anti-crime units, the city that never sleeps surged in gun violence by a stunning   358%   since this time last year.

“It has been nearly a quarter century since New York City experienced as much gun violence in the month of June as it has seen this year,”   The New York Times   reported Tuesday.

NYC “logged 125 shootings in the first three weeks of the month, more than double the number recorded over the same period last year, police data show,” the report noted. “Gunmen opened fire during house parties, barbecues and dice games, and carried out coldly calculated street executions.”

Chief of Crime Control Strategies Michael LiPetri said you would “have to go back to 1996 to have a worse start of June.”

Over this past weekend, 38 people were shot in just 72 hours, and that total only grew larger by Monday.




So the question is will New Yorkers continue to vote for progressives?

 
 
 
Greg Jones
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2.1.1  Greg Jones  replied to  Vic Eldred @2.1    4 years ago
So the question is will New Yorkers continue to vote for progressives?

Probably. Sure glad I don't live there. Democrat controlled Denver is bad enough.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
2.1.2  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  Greg Jones @2.1.1    4 years ago

The mail in voting went well?

 
 
 
Just Jim NC TttH
Professor Principal
2.1.3  Just Jim NC TttH  replied to  Vic Eldred @2.1.2    4 years ago

Swimmingly................................well here and there..........

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
2.1.4  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  Just Jim NC TttH @2.1.3    4 years ago

They'll tell us not to worry, it's not prevalent.

 
 
 
JumpDrive
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2.1.5  JumpDrive  replied to  Vic Eldred @2.1    4 years ago
the city that never sleeps surged in gun violence by a stunning   358%   since this time last year.

Crime was virtually nil because of the lockdown. The city has begun re-opening, so there will, unfortunately, be a surge as the bad guys catch up too. Short interval comparisons are generally nonsensical, we have to see if crime continues at this level. It's also the case at this point that there has been no decrease in the number of police.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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2.1.6  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  JumpDrive @2.1.5    4 years ago
The city has begun re-opening, so there will, unfortunately, be a surge as the bad guys catch up too

That's really weak and denies the obvious.

 
 
 
Transyferous Rex
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4  Transyferous Rex    4 years ago
"A $1 billion budget cut can't address the racism that runs rampant in the NYPD," he said.

But fuck it...we did it anyway!

 
 
 
Sunshine
Professor Quiet
4.1  Sunshine  replied to  Transyferous Rex @4    4 years ago

HA..give it to me.  I'll fix it.  

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
5  seeder  Vic Eldred    4 years ago

Gov Cuomo has just weighed in:

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo slammed the New York City Council’s move strip the New York Police Department of  $1 billion  in funding, questioning “what it means” and calling for concrete action.

“I don’t know what  it  means,” Cuomo said during a press briefing Wednesday. “What does that mean? Does this mean I am less safe? Where did you take the billion dollars from? Does it mean I am more safe? Does it have any effect on police abuse? I don’t know what it means.”



The Governor seems dumbfounded. Should the citizens of the city of New York tell him what it means?

Take the cops away and what happens?   He doesn't know!

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
Professor Principal
6  Sean Treacy    4 years ago

Does this mean I am less safe?

Well yeah dummy. Almost as unsafe as a patient in a  nursing home forced to accept Covid patients.

In the middle of a lockdown, homicides soared 21% in NY. Imagine what will happen when their is no chance of being caught and punished for shooting someone. 

 
 

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