Andrew Cuomo will hire 5,000 police officers (an increase NYPD executives by 15%) if elected NYC's next mayor.
“The presence of a larger police force is a deterrent to crime, improving response rates to 911 calls and giving police the necessary resources to resolve crimes,” his campaign is expected to announce this week.
It also means that additional officers can increase security in so-called “urban crime zones,” such as the corridor on 8th Avenue between Penn Station and Times Square and the Roosevelt Avenue corridor in Queens.
And the bump to 39,000 units will pay for itself by providing much needed morale boost to the department that is plagued by officers who are looking to retire early, surged beyond last year's budget and provides much needed morale boost.
“Large police will lower the level of mandatory overtime, which is one of the major complaints that will lead to the very high levels of attrition that the NYPD is experiencing now,” the paper reads.
Cutting overtime in half would almost cover the costs of 5,000 new officers, Cuomo noted.
The current 34,000 police officers in the NYPD have been robbed of nearly 36,300 rosters that were five years ago. This also contributed to the waste spikes before the pandemic and the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, which promoted national riots and left-wing calls.
The extra executive comes to levels above the ones seen under former Mayor David Dinkins in the early 1990s. This is also shaking with racial mayhem and rising crime.
The NYPD reached an all-time high of over 30,000 police officers under Rudi Giuliani of Mayor in 2000, and then saw a historic decline in crime over the next decade.
“The numbers are amazing,” said a Cuomo insider.
“We now have fewer Beat police officers than we did during the Dinkin era. Even with one million New Yorkers, socialist-oriented city councils cut $1 billion from the police budget. [in 2000] Certainly nothing helped. ”
“We need to hire more police and maintain more police duration, and Andrew Cuomo is poised to take us there and announce his plans to save the city in crisis.”
Cuomo is about to organize a fellow Democrat and retired NYPD Mayor Eric Adams. Public safety has been central to his successful 2021 campaign.
Citywide crime is rising under Adams. What he condemned of the bail reform laws that he signed into law while he took office and other left-handed policies he inherited.
This year, major crime has dropped by 15% so far.
The governor is seen as the forefront of the busy Democratic field, which also includes former computer Scott Stringer and director Brad Lander, according to a recent poll.
