The proposed cut is 2.5% when every other agency in the city has been forced (unreasonably) to make cuts. And we all know that will just get made up with more "mandatory" overtime.

NYC spends disproportionately little on policing relative to other American cities. And given the crimes trends, this is a dangerous decision.

In 2020, that was about 8%. We are down to 5% now.

https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2020/08/the-blue-budget-what-major-cities-spend-on-police/

It is mandatory.

A mandatory gift from NYPD brass to staff, costing taxpayers close to a billion dollars annually.

Guess what the staff doesn’t want… that gift.

Slash that shit 🐖

We need to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on housing migrants in fancy hotels while people get pushed off of subway tracks. Priorities.

But I thought we all wanted to defund the police? I’m confused now as to why he’s under fire for this.