Taking retirement...the key phrase. These are officers that have put in their time with attendant promotions along the way...not beat cops. Not only are they unlikely to be beat cops, but given those numbers and how quickly this has been leaked/released chances are very good that almost all would be upper echelon that have heard the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse pounding towards them. They know that Krazy Kyser Wilhelm will throw them to the wolves sooner rather than later.
Expect lots of empty desks at headquarters and division commanders offices. Huge immediate hit to NYC budget...upper six figure pensions.
As for replacements, Irish need not apply.
interesting
So the budget takes a big pension hit..in addition to the hit where he is going to give money to social services