From the Daily News:Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly warned Thursday that the city's budget woes will plunge the number of cops on the street to the lowest levels since 1990.
Kelly told a City Council budget hearing that financial constraints will trim the NYPD to a 20-year low of 32,817 officers in the 2011 budget.
The NYPD would lose 892 officers through attrition under Mayor Bloomberg's proposed $46.5 billion spending plan for next year.
Kelly insisted the department would continue to do more with less, but acknowledged the cuts are having an effect.
Operation Impact, the initiative that floods crime hot spots with rookie cops, may soon pack less punch.
That's because the current academy class of 112 recruits is the smallest in 15 years, Kelly said.
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So where could this hit on Police and Fireman services come from? Queens, buddy!
Do we really need more cops to ignore our complaints and refuse to write an incident report?
I don't mind. I liked the early 90's more than the way things are now. I'm ALL for it.
"I don't mind. I liked the early 90's more than the way things are now. I'm ALL for it."
You must be the perp who kept breaking into my car.
Well, if we could bump a few hundred of the worthless teachers in the rubber room at Board of Ed headquarters, I guess we could hire the emergency services back, right?
More Rubber Room Kool-Aid consumption...
Klein and the DOE can clear out most of the rubber room whenever it wants. They CHOOSE to drag out cases beyond contractually mandated time limits to keep this red herring issue alive and discredit the UFT. The story makes for good print in the Post and NYDN.
"Klein and the DOE can clear out most of the rubber room whenever it wants."
Yeah, in the "old days" they buried trouble by dumping them in the district offices or at 110.
I knew a teacher at my school who was a little too friendly to (at least) one boy in his H-C class.
I was friends with the principal and he told me over dinner that the problem was solved by transferring that teacher to a -high school-. The alternative was years of procedural steps and they figured that the big kids in that HS would deter his tendencies.
I have no idea how this worked out, but I do know the school where he went...I doubt he got out of line there.
Well if minorities committed crimes at the same rate as white people we could lay off 10,000 more and save some serious $$$
Instead of laying off cops and firemen, why doesn't the city lay off all those fat cats in the Bloomberg Administration who sit at desks and do nothing for a six-figure salary. I'm sure they won't be missed. Police and Firemen are crucial to this city's safety. Why do average people have to suffer because the city and state can't be fiscally responsible? We are being punished for their ineptitude.
It wouldn't be so bad if these cuts were made in the "UP AND COMING" neighborhoods, maybe a crime wave in those areas would scare the trust fund kiddies back to Ohio, Texas, Oregon, Westchester etc.
Unfortunately, we know the reality of the situation will result in losing cops in neighborhoods where us peasants live.
back to the days of 2000 homicides..........thin the herd
What the heck do we need more police or firemen when we're getting a brand spakning new police academy in College Point??!?!? How much is that going to cost? Hmmm...........
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Well, if we could bump a few hundred of the worthless teachers in the rubber room at Board of Ed headquarters, I guess we could hire the emergency services back, right
Or we could DEPORT THE ILLEGALS THAT WOULD PUT ALOT OF $$$$ BACK INTO OUR ECONOMY:)
Every time we see stuff like this, we need to repeat ad nausim:
1. why are developers getting subsidized with tax revenues or tax breaks?
2. why are taxes paying for putting in infrastructure on new projects destined for people who don't even live here - while resident services (who are footing the bill) head south?
3. why are there no cuts to city planning?
4. where do they find the monies for new buildings? find the sources of those funds, and scheme to channel it into providing services like schools, firemen, police, etc!
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