Posted on 09/30/2021 7:25:20 AM PDT by lowbridge
Despite claiming that officials in her administration don’t support defunding police, Gov. Kathy Hochul has tapped a second person who does to a key post — a failed New York City Council candidate who wants to slash the NYPD budget by $3 billion.
On Friday, Hochul appointed Amit Bagga to be her deputy secretary for intergovernmental affairs. He lost the City Council primary in June for Queens’ District 26 seat despite support from Democratic socialist and defund proponent Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez’s political action committee.
Bagga’s archived campaign website, which was taken down last week, says he wants to cut the NYPD’s budget by $3 billion, or about a third, within two to four years.
He also proposed reducing the size of the force by 5 percent, removing cops from public schools and mental health responses, and “decriminalizing all drugs.”
This comes after The Post reported that her new lieutenant governor, Brian Benjamin, tweeted his support for the defund-the-police movement in January.
“I support the movement to defund the police because I believe that there are parts of the NYPD budget that are not essential for public safety,” Benjamin wrote at the time.
In responses to an online questionnaire from the Jim Owles Democratic Club in January, Bagga wrote: “I strongly believe in the dismantling of the specific type of police state we live in and believe that the police need to get out of most of the businesses of what we consider ‘policing.’”
He added that the criminal justice system is “rooted in the original sin of slavery, and the system itself is weaponized to criminalized, impoverish and murder Black Americans in particular.”
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So sad to see our liberty loving Yankees controlled by a bunch of stinkin commies.
“So sad to see our liberty loving Yankees controlled by a bunch of stinkin commies.”
They are in the minority.
I’ve come to the same defund the NYPD position. Let the entire, stinking mess descend into anarchy. Our side will stand a better chance in such an environment.
Just what exactly does a deputy secretary for intergovernmental affairs do, besides mooch taxpayer money and advance Marxist Communist Totalitarian agendas like defunding police?
The democrats put her in office because she’s much better at being a fascist that Cuuuuomo. Dumping Cuuuuomo enabled them to put this nazi into office, so they told the bimbos to go with their stories to the media, and they did, and they collected their stipend. Cuuuuomo left office and New York gets the Hoch-Gestapo herself.
I always wondered why the bimbos who tell stores of sexual harassment ALWAYS drop out of sight once their target resigns.
Hochul appointed Amit Bagga to be her deputy secretary for intergovernmental affairs. He lost the City Council primary in June for Queens’ District 26 seat despite support from Democratic socialist and defund proponent Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez’s political action committee... says he wants to cut the NYPD’s budget by $3 billion, or about a third, within two to four years. He also proposed reducing the size of the force by 5 percent, removing cops from public schools and mental health responses, and “decriminalizing all drugs.” ... lieutenant governor, Brian Benjamin, tweeted his support for the defund-the-police movement in January. “I support the movement to defund the police because I believe that there are parts of the NYPD budget that are not essential for public safety,”...
Amit Singh Bagga: Twitter
Undocumented New Yorkers are New Yorkers and our government must work for them, too. That’s why @GovKathyHochul is announcing $27M in #HurricaneIda relief for undocumented families.
https://twitter.com/amitsinghbagga
Yep, New York just went from bad to worse.
This seems to raise questions about the 12th Season of “Blue Bloods”, as there is no way that show can reconcile itself with the insanity of the new reality of the NYPD and its city. The idiots running New York State and NYC, are plunging both into a death spiral that cannot be recovered from, if this suicidal “defunding” actually is implemented.
Blue Bloods is about creative “sanity” and its application to law enforcement in NYC. That theme is fiction, and may soon become fantasy, as the reality of rampant crime destroys the city and its citizens. Life on the street in NYC will be interesting... in about a year or so. Perhaps they should re-title the show “Blue Bloods Escape from New York”.
Californikkka and New Yorkkk both gone. Sad. Time to kick them out of the republic.
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