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The NYPD has lost a large number of sergeants as it reduces the appeal of New York City leaders achieving the rank of police. Newly promoted supervisor.

Under the expired contract, Sergeant's payments start at $98,000 and close at $118,000 after about five years, according to Sergeant NYPD's Charity Association (SBA). Patrol executives will be the top at $115,000. This means that hundreds of sergeants will create rank and file cops of less than thousands who have reached the highest wages for their positions.

“Next year, 2018, it could potentially be going up between $9 and $15,000 more than a police officer,” said Vincent Vallaillong, president of the SBA. “So you're taking more responsibility, taking tests, taking three tests, losing money at the end of the day.”

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New York Mayor Eric Adams is looking at NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tish in Manhattan on December 19th, 2024. (Reuters/Eduardo Munoz)

Over the course of his career, he said sergeant could lose between $80,000 and $100,000 in revenue.

Rather than creating a step program to gradually increase sergeant salary, the SBA said, if city sergeant is promoted to the highest salary to outweigh his subordinates, he could be on the estimated $170 million hook. There is.

“When I went back to the 90s and turned the city and fixed the crime, it was the NYPD that did it, so it doesn't seem like anyone's priorities are in the right place,” Vallelong said in Fox He told News Digital.

For comparison, the city reached $220 million deal It will house illegal immigrants along with the Roosevelt Hotel, owned by the Pakistani government.

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Close-up of NYPD uniform showing sergeant's chevron patch on police officer's right arm

NYPD Sergeant Patch and Chevron were portrayed by officers in 2022. (Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Daily News/Tribune News Service

“They're bleeding money in all the wrong places,” Vallern said. “Someone in urban governance needs to go, or you really need to sit back and go back to basics through this… Let's go back to basic math. Go back to basic economics.”

According to the SBA, the NYPD currently has around 4,300 sergeants and is shy about 200 targets. Over 70 people left the department in January 2025, with 1,100 eligible to retire by June. Others were promoted to mid-Li with another blow to staffing level.

An estimated 1,200 active duty sergeants are doing their second job to achieve their objectives in high-cost metropolitan areas.

“We are currently undergoing a mediation process with the SBA and are committed to participating in fair solutions that continue to protect public safety,” a spokesman for New York City Mayor Eric Adams said on Monday that Fox News Digital He spoke to.

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NYPD officials will gather to see immigrants gather outside the hotel, converted into a shelter in New York City's Times Square area on February 7, 2024. (Matthew McDermott from Fox News Digital)

They are seeing additional work in normal duties due to a lack of personnel, but NYPD Sergeant has been working on low levels of non-emergency calls, pursuit of vehicles from outside of their units, and on monthly body cam videos. Monitoring reviews also gives new challenges. , according to the SBA. These jobs will require less time to go out on New York City patrols.

In that environment, staff worry that Top Pay officials have no motivation to take promotion exams, get promotions and replenish their exhausted ranks.

Negotiations scheduled for the first week of February have been postponed, with Vallallong saying the city has ignored the proposal from the SBA.

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Adams, the former NYPD captain himself, has previously said he will reach a new contract agreement. His office did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Fox News Digital.

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The immigrants will be seen sleeping outside the Roosevelt Hotel in midtown Manhattan on July 31, 2023. (via Luiz C. Ribeiro/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service

“The mayor was a sergeant at some point. He had to be there to get where he was,” Valenson said. “And you think he understands this more than anyone else because if the push sticks out, he doesn't take this rank unless he's compensated in the right way. Because I guarantee it.”

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While divisions across the country struggle to recruit and maintain, and experienced NYPD members are attractive to small sectors with low cost of living, these departments are disgusting police officers who are tired of living in the Big Apple It is increasingly appealing to the public.

Immigrants arrive at the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan

The immigrants will arrive at the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan, New York on July 25th, 2023. (Julia Bonavita/Fox News Digital)

As a result, NYPD members are generally less experienced, but face increased workloads, according to the SBA.

“The mayor was in Albany and wanted more money for immigrants,” Vallern said. “I know he met with the President. Maybe he passed the bill that he said he would return that year to pass the bill, adopt it with law enforcement, and make it a great job again. You should ask the president to do so.”

“We have already spent more than $7 billion on this crisis alone, and the previous administration has only funded $237 million to house immigrants for our care and future services. It wasn't,” a city hall spokesperson told Fox News on Monday. “We continue to receive previously allocated refunds last week, and we will discuss this issue directly with federal officials.”

Grace Taggart and Max Bacall from Fox News contributed to this report.

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