NYC Mayor Eric Adams has announced that due to the financial impact of ongoing migrant arrivals, the city will have to make budget cuts that will reduce NYPD officers to below 30,000 and slash the Education Department by $1 billion, amongst other cuts. He warns more cuts will be necessary unless the city receives more federal money to help with migrant arrivals.
Why not ship them back? Why destroy the city?
SANCTUARY CITY UPDATE:
Services for taxpayers in NY will be cut drastically in order to pay for illegals.
These budget cuts reduce the number of police officers and reduce spending on education by $1 billion.
More on the way, Mayor Adams adds.
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Mayor Eric Adams announces sweeping budget cuts that would drop number of police officers to lowest since 1990s
By Marcia Kramer, Natalie Duddridge, NY Post, November 16, 2023:
NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Eric Adams unveiled his first round of budget cuts on Thursday. He wasn’t kidding when he said they’d be painful.
Five percent cuts across the board will effect every city agency. Sanitation programs and schools will feel the pinch, but the most dramatic effect will be on public safety and the NYPD.
Adams, a former NYPD captain was elected in part on his promise to cut crime and make the streets safe again.
It’s ironic that while every agency is taking a hit, his cuts will drop the number of cops patrolling the streets to the lowest number since the 1990s.
“This is the most painful exercise I’ve ever done in my professional life,” said Adams.
The mayor made the frank admission as he hosted a town hall for older adults at the Hudson Guild.
It came minutes after his budget director admitted in a briefing the need for belt-tightening, to deal with a $7 billion budget gap caused in part by the asylum seeker crisis and the reduction in federal aid for COVID, would force the city to stop hiring cops for the foreseeable future.
The budget director said the next five classes at the police academy will be canceled and the number of cops is expected to drop from 33,541 to about 29,000 in the fiscal year starting July 2024. That’s the lowest number of cops since the 1990s, he said.
Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Hendry was stunned. He said the cuts could kill 30 years of public safety progress.
“This is truly a disaster for every New Yorker who cares about safe streets. Cops are already stretched to our breaking point, and these cuts will return us to staffing levels we haven’t seen since the crime epidemic of the ’80s and ’90s. We cannot go back there. We need every level of government to work together to find a way to support police officers and protect New York City’s thirty years of public safety progress,” Hendry told CBS New York in a statement.
Article posted with permission from Pamela Geller
