Posted on 06/04/2020 6:26:32 PM PDT by lowbridge
New York Citys Comptroller Scott M. Stringer sent a letter Thursday to the citys 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 Stringers letter, it would mean a 5 percent budget cut for the police force for FY2021, which would be about $265 million.
The Comptrollers budget plan for the NYPD is as follows:
(Excerpt) Read more at saraacarter.com ...
Have never been there and dont plan to go until a good conservative is in office for a few years and clean it up.
I kinda wish I was a psychotic criminal. Looks like Minneapolis and New York city are soon going to be Sanctuary Cities for more than mere illegal aliens.
So when I knock out the comptrollers porch lights and spray paint his garage door I will be unrestrained by law enforcement? Sweet.
If they cut defund the police do we get our taxes cut?
Shut up, racist.
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A billion dollars less they can’t whine about the Feds not sending them
Thanks, NYC!!
Any judge who subsequently ruled to restore the funding, should find his own neighborhood police funding cut immediately.
$1.1 Billion? C’mon,man! $8.8 Billion sounds a lot more “progressive”.
DeBlasio put 4,000 NYC cops on patrol May 31. He put 8,000 NYC cops on patrol June 1. We saw what happened to NYC on those two nights and how many cops were attacked and can’t work now, so we’ve already seen what ‘defunding’ the PD results in, just in DeBlasio’s reluctance to respond realistically to the situation.
“There were about 4,000 officers on duty last night. Therell be double that tonight, about 8,000, he said.
The beefed up forces will be deployed to lower Manhattan and downtown Brooklyn both areas that were essentially trashed on Sunday night.
The announcement comes after four nights of rioting ..”
Every leftist lunatic loser over plays their hand. They must be crushed .
the days of Noah
If they cut defund the police do we get our taxes cut?
THAT is the question that EVERY tax payer in LA and NYC should be asking of these anarchist thugs, recommending this.
Donald Fagen.
New Frontier.
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Meanwhile, with all the illegals, homeless (due to drug use or insufficient skills to hold a job which pays for what they require), career criminals, stupid-beyond-belief pols passing no bail/instant relief laws, etc.---they're gonna need more police, not less. But let absolute total imbeciles like the faygelah Scott Stringer strip major money from the NYPD and we'll sit back and watch the last of the city gutter out and go dark.
No, the money “will be diverted toward vulnerable communities” who deserve it more than you do.
One black guy is killed and now we are getting steamrolled by radical leftist insanity like dismantling police depts.
De Blasio still refuses to ask Cuomo for the National Guard.
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