Faced with spending cuts, New York Police Department Commissioner Dermot Shea is pressing city council for more funding in the city’s proposed budget
Stemming New York’s rise in violent crime and helping the city recover from thewill require more police officers and overtime spending, New York Police Department Commissioner Dermot Shea said Tuesday.
Mr. Shea, at a city council hearing on the city’s proposed budget for the coming fiscal year, said that overtime spending is at a 15-year low. He urged against spending cuts to his department, which lost some funding last year and has faced calls for further reductions from some city lawmakers. The NYPD’s proposed annual expense budget for the coming fiscal year is $5.44 billion, which is 5.5% of the city’s $98.56 billion overall proposed budget. There are currently 35,030 uniformed members and 15,646 civilian members of the department, according to the NYPD.
The current fiscal year’s budget allocates nearly $271 million in overtime for the department, according to Bernard O’Brien, a police budget analyst at the city’s Independent Budget Office. The NYPD already has exceeded that amount this year, Mr. O’Brien said. A total of $837.5 million was spent on NYPD overtime last year, and an average of $740.4 million over the past five years.
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