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Mayor Zohran Mamdani is demanding some kind of tax hike to fund higher spending across city government — with the conspicuous exception of the NYPD.
He’s not only nixing his predecessor’s budget plans to increase the force by 5,000 cops, he’s axing a Police Academy class and so guaranteeing the force will shrink amid the ongoing exodus of veteran cops.
That decision irked the Council’s Public Safety Chairman Oswald Feliz (D-Bx.), who rightly blasted the mayor’s NYPD hiring freeze at a time when the department is “already facing unprecedented officer shortages.”
Council Speaker Julie Menin also warned that rolling back the cop-hiring plan risks making New Yorkers unsafe.
That plan would’ve lifted the NYPD to 40,000 strong as the city faces crime in many categories still well above pre-pandemic levels; instead, the mayor and his #Defund allies are intent on shrinking the nation’s premier crimefighting agency.
And while he hasn’t said much of late about his vows to send in social workers instead of cops, The New York Times reports City Hall is hunting for a deputy mayor to oversee the still-to-be-defined Department of Community Safety, working with Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan to craft rules of engagement for how the DCS would lead responses to 911 calls about emotionally disturbed people and homelessness.
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Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, who led a remarkable turnaround to stop the force from shrinking last year, continues to innovate to deliver a safer city — but she can only so so much if the mayor keeps undercutting her.
Mamdani has time to reverse his own course and restore new-cop funding in his revised budget presentation in May.
If he instead persists, expect to see crime steadily rise above and below ground under our anti-cop mayor.