Posted on 06/04/2020 6:26:32 PM PDT by lowbridge
New York City’s Comptroller Scott M. Stringer sent a letter Thursday to the city’s Mayor Bill de Blasio asking him to cut $1.1 billion of funding to the New York Police Department over the next four years saying the funding to “scale down” the police force. Moreover, he said the money needs to be diverted “toward vulnerable communities most impacted by police violence and structural racism.”
“These are trying times for all New Yorkers, but especially for communities of color,” he wrote in the letter. “Across the boroughs, as across the nation, protesters have gathered to mourn and demand justice for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and the hundreds of black men and women who have been killed at the hands of police in the U.S. The need for change – and a fundamental realignment of priorities – is clear, and I urge you to seize this moment to bring a measure of justice and fairness to how we spend our city dollars and protect New Yorkers.”
According to Stringer’s letter, it would mean a 5 percent budget cut for the police force for FY2021, which would be about $265 million.
The Comptroller’s budget plan for the NYPD is as follows:
(Excerpt) Read more at saraacarter.com ...
As Paul Harvey used to say: “the Devil always overplays his hand.”
If they cut defund the police do we get our taxes cut?
Insanity.
Left NYC 20 years ago.
I go back every once in awhile.
Mostly to gloat.
That virtue-signaling scumbag is going to get innocent people hurt. Fire his Leftwing ass now.
Police unions are the base for Dems. Support Progressives? not so much.
No.
Where do you think those cuts are going to go? Not Chelsea, Broadway nor uptown.
The lower East Side OTOH...
You are a dreamer. Or a comedian.
So the total budget is 5.3 billion? Should be thousands of cops on the streets, right?/s
how is this going to go over
police union in NYC is pretty strong
i have been listening to the Doobie Brothers today with the recognizable riffs trying to go back in time...because 2020 outright sucks
Where’s Guiliani on this? Sure wish he was the Mayor right now.
Call 9-1—1 ... in Canada if you need them. We will not respond.
I believe I read a few days back some 400,000 New Yorkers have already left the city during the Corona panic. These represent largely the richest of the rich. They may not return. Add to that a defunded police department and you’ll have escalating crime. More will leave. It’s 1970s New York all over again.
Wow, they (leftists) are hitting this movement hard.
NYC is Gotham City. We need Batman!
Sure thing! Make the Dinkins era look like a time of law and order in NYC.
Giuliani brought the city back from lawlessness and now the soft-headed libs want to revert to anarchy.
No. Even Batman would let that dump burn now.
I’ve listened to Agualung and Thick as a Brick today
Somehow they seem so apropo right now
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