The news of the blown police budget comes as Adams faces a costly migrant crisis and a city budget deficit that has triggered calls from the mayor’s office to cut billions with nearly every c…
Police overtime is projected to hit $740 million this fiscal year — nearly double the NYPD’s extra-duty budget and the highest level seen in the last decade, officials said Monday.
As of last month, the NYPD’s staffing came in at 34,017 — down nearly 900 from last year. It has dropped more than 2,500 from the peak of 2019, when the department employed 36,717 uniformed officers, according to the comptroller’s report. “The persistent gap between budgeted overtime and actual overtime spending is neither helpful for agency planning nor cost effective for the City of New York,” the report states, adding, “Simply budgeting less for overtime has not proven to be an effective tool for controlling overtime costs, without any accountability for agencies that exceed their budgets.”
Chief of Department Jeff Maddrey said the main driver of overtime was the department’s deployment to stem crime patterns across the city.
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