Posted on 06/12/2020 8:57:56 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Speaker Corey Johnson and seven other City Council leaders firmly embraced the “Defund Police” movement Friday, calling for $1 billion in cuts to the NYPD’s $6 billion budget.
“We believe that we can and should work to get to $1 billion in cuts to New York City’s police spending in the Fiscal 2021 budget, an unprecedented reduction that would not only limit the scope of the NYPD, but also show our commitment towards moving away from the failed policing policies of the past,” Johnson (D-Manhattan) announced late Friday.
He was joined by Majority Leader Laurie Cumbo (D-Brooklyn), Democratic Conference Chair Robert Cornegy (D-Brooklyn), co-chairs of the Black, Latino and Asian Caucus I. Daneek Miller (D-Queens) and Adrienne Adams (D-Queens), as well as Finance Committee Chair Daniel Dromm (D-Queens), Capital Budget Subcommittee Chair Vanessa Gibson (D-Bronx), and Public Safety Committee Chair Donovan Richards (D-Queens).
“There is no doubt that this is an ambitious goal, but it is one that the time we are in calls for — both here in New York City and nationwide,” the elected officials said.
New York City activists — fueled by the police-involved killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis — have been demanding the $1 billion slash to the NYPD coffers.
The lawmakers claim they’ve already identified ways to slash the law enforcement budget by “reducing uniform headcount through attrition, cutting overtime, shifting responsibilities away from the NYPD, finding efficiencies and savings in OTPS spending, and lowering associated fringe expenses.”
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This woke movement is providing a list of domestic enemies and the evidence from which the final solution is coming.
Sucks to beca young cop with just a few years in. You’re either going to have leave with nothing or just put up with it.
Will be interesting to watch the failed policing policy of the future.
without police, who are going to arrest people for not social-distancing, not smoking in designated areas, jaywalking, selling selfie cigarettes, or a thousand other petty and stupid progressive laws? Who will enforce gun-control laws?
DemKlowns Mitting their own faces in public...
Corey Johnson looks like he’s going drop a load in his nice suit...
"Defund Government". Let's not let a crisis go to waste!
Warlordville
Can we start with defunding any security detail for Corey Johnson?
Thus opening the way for more Blacks killed at the hands of
other Blacks.
That won’t be good enough though. They’re branching out to
kill Whites on a whim too.
Here is some facts folks about this liberal grifter: Commie Council Member Johnson. He currently receives a salary of $148,500 a year from the city and I assure you there are a lot of other “perks”. Mr.Johnson will never ever feel the affects of his absurd proposal because he will be living in a walled , super duper secured enclave that will have armed security. while the rest of the “Little People” will just have to cope with armed gangs ruling their little fiefdom turfs...
Why not make it a nice round number and say 10 billion dollars. I am all for it. The politicians may not like because there are less money for them to steal. But , hell if you are going to go, go first class. It only cost a nickel more. Just for kicks, cut 15 billion dollars.
Trump will create a nationalized and federalized replacement out of necessity through DOJ and DHS.
Morons aplenty these days...
To be truthful, there is no department or agency in any large government bureaucracy that isn’t wasting at least 20% of its budget, but it’s very unusual for budget cutters to ever pick the actual waste for cuts.
A lot, I suppose.
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