Posted on 06/07/2020 8:09:50 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Mayor Bill de Blasio on Sunday pledged for the first time to cut the city’s police funding, following 10 nights of mass protests against police violence and mounting demands that he overhaul a department whose tactics have caused widespread consternation.
The mayor on Sunday declined to say precisely how much funding he planned to divert to social services from the New York Police Department, which has an annual budget of $6 billion, representing more than 6 percent of Mr. de Blasio’s proposed $90 billion budget.
de Blasio said the details would be worked out with the City Council in advance of the July 1 budget deadline.
“We’re committed to seeing a shift of funding to youth services, to social services, that will happen literally in the course of the next three weeks, but I’m not going to go into detail because it is subject to negotiation and we want to figure out what makes sense,” Mr. de Blasio said.
As recently as Friday, de Blasio expressed skepticism about cutting police funding, even as he noted that all city agencies might face cuts, absent more financial assistance from the federal government.
His Sunday morning reversal was one of two shifts in his stance toward protesters. In the early morning, he announced on Twitter that New York City’s first curfew since World War II would end effectively immediately, a day earlier than planned. He attributed the course correction to his belief that the protests had become more peaceful in recent days.
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The 1970s called. They want their NYC back.
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Who will take the place of the police? Social workers LOL LOL!!!
They will introduce Sharia law as the law of Newyorkcityistan and later of New Yorkstan?
Sharia Police. The Muslim sectors are ready for this. The city council will fund them as “Community Mental Health” organizations. (thanks to flamberge for this insight!)
New York citizens, choose from:
1) Pay the dhimmi and you will be protected by the Sharia Patrols
2) Special 80% off deal if you convert
3) Lifetime supply of Bricks, free delivery
well all the rad loving NYC Jews have voted for this....I guess they want to live under the muzzies...
He really wants to destroy NY City.
No bailouts!
Paul Kerseys.
Operator voice- the number you have called 911 is not in service. Goodbye
This is all so pathetic. I absolutely despise liberals.
That is what Hitler would do!
I just like using his name with liberals.
I think we all know that the youth gangs, drug dealers and other assorted criminal types are making note of all of this.
They will see that the police are going to be spread much thinner than they are now and that’s going to create more criminal opportunities for the criminal element. It will decrease the chances of the criminals getting in trouble for their crimes.
It’s very predictable what the consequences of this stupid action will be.
I guess I shouldn’t be shocked about anything anymore but it has shocked me a bit how much chatter there is about defunding police all of a sudden.
And apparently the Minneapolis city council has a veto-proof majority to vote to get rid of their police altogether.
BLM has always been about anti-cop agendas, period. Defunding police has been part of their stated goals.
This movement is going off the rails crazy.
Get out of the zones.
Blue zones...
NYC is lost.
Get out while you can.
I lived there once decades ago, in what is now AOC’s district.
Run while you can.
They should just cut the funding in the black neighborhoods. Then the problem will eventually be fixed all by itself!
I think Minneapolis is the perfect testing ground for eliminating the police. Hire the BLM members with the thinnest arrest records to patrol the evil white suburbs for those who do not submit to Democrat rule.
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