[faucetman]

Entering Ithaca from the south you pass under our “Bridge to NOWHERE”. There is a banner on it saying that Ithaca Police Department is HIRING.

Funny, since a recent budget proposal was that 8 (ALREADY LEFT VACANT) police officer positions be ELIMINATED!

DEFUND THE POLICE is alive and well in Ithaca.

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“74.4 officers
With a permanent population of about 31,000, that means the Ithaca Police Department should have 74.4 officers. Nayor said IPD is currently operating with 61; however, 10 are out on leave and are not active, bringing the functioning total to 51. Additionally, three more officers were injured that week during an arrest.Oct 21, 2020”

https://www.ithaca.com/news/ithaca/police-funding-its-complicated/article_8d38decc-13ed-11eb-9fa4-7bd17b390c46.html#:~:text=With%20a%20permanent%20population%20of,that%20week%20during%20an%20arrest.

So on 10/21/2020 The City of EVIL, I mean Ithaca, Should have 74 officers and they have only 48 on duty.

[Atticus]

I went to graduate school in Ithaca, NY thirty years ago and the area felt pretty safe, even when the killer in the grisly Harris family murders in nearby Dryden was on the loose. I also remember a Cornell undergrad died after being punched by an Ithaca College student downtown one night and so that was perhaps my biggest fear - getting drunk at one of the bars near the Commons and being sucker punched by some IC dude bigger than me. Don’t get me wrong, Ithaca was the City of Evil back then, too.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

The “Defund the Police” crowd is still demanding more cuts.
https://ithacavoice.com/2020/11/sunday-protests-continue-to-focus-attentions-on-ipd/