Mayor Eric Adams Slashes NYC Police Budget to Pay for Influx of Migrants
Hotair | 11/20/2023 | David StromEric Adams, the Mayor of New York City, is having trouble paying for the feeding, housing, and coddling of the illegal migrants who have flooded his city thanks to Joe Biden’s open borders.
Adams was elected to clean up the city and to address the crime epidemic after the disastrous reign of Bill DeBlasio. His election was a bit of rebellion against the soft-on-crime policies that were undermining the advances made during the pre-DeBlasio mayoralties of Giuliani and Bloomberg to make the city livable for the middle class.
So imagine the disappointment the residents of the city are experiencing now that Adams has decided to slash the police budget as a money-saving strategy–a strategy made necessary by the influx of migrants.
The Democrat mayor of New York has slashed the city’s policing budget, blaming the influx of more than 100,000 migrants in the last year.
Eric Adams said he would oversee $4 billion in budget cuts over the next 18 months, including cancelling the hiring of new police officers, reducing education spending and closing public libraries on Sundays.
He blamed the rising costs of the city’s migrant crisis for the move, with tens of thousands of people having travelled from the US’s southern border to New York, seeking the shelter and financial aid which the city is obliged by law to provide.
“This is the most painful exercise I’ve ever done in my professional life,” Mr Adams said, telling New Yorkers they would experience “disruptions to the services you all rely on”.
The cuts will mean the New York Police Department will cancel its next five intakes of new officers, reducing the overall headcount to less than 30,000 for the first time in decades.
This was not what New Yorkers expected when they elected Adams, although frankly, it is what they should have expected when they decided to virtue signal by making New York a “sanctuary city.”
Virtue signaling is all well and good when you don’t have to put your money where your mouth is, and in this case, the money involved is at least $4 billion.
Looking down your nose at Trump and Red state governors was, no doubt, extremely satisfying, but as with so many other self-flattering moves, it’s not so fun when the bill arrives and you have to deal with the consequences.
and of course:
San Francisco To Let Citizens Vote on Fund for Police Department Staffing
Police! | 112923 | Joanna PutnamSAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved a city charter amendment that will allow voters to choose whether they want to pay for new police officers, Bay City News reported.
If voters approve the amendment, a tax will be added to create a police staffing fund. The fund would reach $16.8 million within the first year, according to the report. The fund would allow the city to set a minimum staffing number of 1,700 officers in the first year.
The minimum staffing number would increase every year until the city reaches a maximum of 2,074 officers, according to the report.
“The proposed measure provides voters with a chance to express whether they desire more police presence,” said Supervisor Catherine Stefani, who voted for the measure.
Makes perfect sense – the migrants have had to act as their own police force all the way to their destination. They may even reduce crime once they are in place – well, that’s typical progressive logic, anyway…
That which a man soweth, thus shall they reap…
I asm sure it will all work out well in the end. Pass the pop corn.
I really wish this was a live and let die kind of situation where we could just watch them burn their own cities to the ground. But the reality is they don’t abide that, but more of a veni vidi oblitus cessi lifestyle.
Oh, another “We spend the policing money on something else, you’ll have to pay more taxes if you want them back” vote.
This is the reason I stopped voting for all the special purpose taxes in California.
Cut the budget, and remember to put up Crime Free Zone signs.
Trump: “Hey Dems, if you play stupid games all you’re gonna get is stupid prizes.”