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“We are concerned about that,” the Manhattan Democrat said during an interview on Fox 5 New York aired Friday, when asked what the council made of Mamdani’s recent move to keep the NYPD ’s headcount as is.
“We’ve got the same number of officers basically that we had on 9/11 yet the city has grown substantially,” Menin said.“So that is an area of real concern,” she added, noting that the council was also keeping a close eye on the city’s crime rate.Mystery swirls around possible 'second suspect' in Nancy Guthrie case — as sheriff makes new admissionhad announced the plan to surge the department’s ranks by 5,000 on his way out in October, putting pressure on the anti-police Democratic socialist candidate in the campaign’s last days.Mamdani at the time was quick to shoot down the idea, maintaining that he’d keep the headcount at the current 35,000.That’s one campaign promise he did follow through on, as his $127 billion preliminary budget proposal unveiled Tuesday did not include funding for the new cops.“Cancelling the planned expansion of the NYPD is the wrong decision at the wrong time,” Morano said. “When you weaken your police force, everything else suffers.” In 2019, the NYPD stood strong at nearly 38,000 officers. But the ranks steadily became depleted due to a mass of retirements, with lagging recruitment among anti-cop sentiment in 2020. Even under Adams, the city struggled to hire cops, for years failing to climb to and fill the budgeted number of 35,000. Mamdani faced blowback during the mayoral campaign for saying he didn’t want to add any cops to the force. Instead, he vowed to slash the NYPD’s overtime budget and funnel those funds into the a new $1.1 billion agency, dubbed the Department of Community Safety, which would handle all mental health calls. Mamdani, though, hasn’t offered up much information on how that new agency would operate in the real world, opposed to empty campaign slogans. He also didn’t allocate funding for the DCS in his current budget proposal, though City Hall said it would be included in the April update. “The Mayor is deeply committed to establishing the Department of Community Safety, and this new Deputy Mayor will play a key role in setting the foundation for it with the help of First Deputy Mayor Fuleihan,” said City Hall spokesperson Sam Raskin.Mystery swirls around possible 'second suspect' in Nancy Guthrie case — as sheriff makes new admission2.9K‘Love Story’ star Sarah Pidgeon swears by this ‘skin but better’ fragranceA powerful nor'easter could be headed for NYC: Here's how much snow we'll get and when it'll start
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