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> Keep in mind NYPD had its budget cut by billions of dollar Where do you see that? Looking at their spending, that does not seem to be the case: https://ibo.
by spamizbad 3y ago
> Keep in mind NYPD had its budget cut by billions of dollar
Where do you see that? Looking at their spending, that does not seem to be the case:
https://ibo.nyc.ny.us/RevenueSpending/nypd.html https://ibo.nyc.ny.us/RevenueSpending/nypd.html
Anyway, wasn't the election of former police officer Eric Adams supposed to be a turning point for the city? Did the tough-on-crime mayor not have a measurable impact on crime? I noticed in San Francisco they elected a moderate Mayor (London Breed) and tossed out their reformist DA in a recall but it does appear the crime problem seems intractable even for hardline moderates.
- chimeracoder 3y ago> Where do you see that? OP is incorrect. The NYPD has had its budget consistently increased each year. There is one asterisk, in 2020, where the then-speaker attempted to hide the increases to the police budget by allocating the funding for police embedded in schools to the Department of Education, but this was caught pretty quickly. So the actual total amount budgeted for police up-front did not decrease, and of course the amount actually paid was much higher (because the police have gone over their budget every year consistently for a very long time). There wasn't much support among elected officials for actually decreasing police funding. The mayor at the time made a pretty mild criticism of police violence and then the police union threatened to assault his daughter, so he reversed course and that didn't leave much room for even lip service to reducing police funding from the top.