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Hasn't Eric Adams, the former police chief leading the race for mayor, promised to end that insanity? (And when are they going to finish counting those votes?)

• busterarm 5y ago
  Nobody knows who the hell Eric Adams is. Even here in NY. He _barely_ won his primary. My rep that I mentioned earlier is nationally the press' darling.
  • addicted 5y ago
    The NYPD’s budget was “cut” to levels from 2 years ago to pre pandemic levels. The “cut” is also chimeric because the money to the NYPD was funneled through other avenues (for example, through the MTA, where Cuomo increased funding to the NYPD by getting the MTA to pay for NYPD presence in the subway funneling money to the NYPD without making it obvious at a time it wasn’t politically viable to increase police funding). That’s why headcount and the operational budget remained the same despite the “cut” and the fact that the NYPD officers received more overtime last year than probably every before. And the NYPD continues to remain the highest funded police force both on an absolute and a per capita basis by a favor of at least 2. Finally, next years budget already includes a further increase in the NYPD’s top line budget and neither of the possible remaining mayoral candidates (Adams or Garcia) have proposed reducing the budget. The idea that decisions about the NYPD have contributed to the increase in violent crime (which once again is nationwide) is not borne out by the actual changes that have been made.