: This mask costs about $240. Those boots? $103. Riot gloves: $68. The tear gas launcher: $299. The shield: $164. And this entire outfit? About $500. Though all this may seem pricey, it's just a drop in the bucket of New York City's $6 billion police budget.Jonathan Rosenberg:
In general, budgets are a statement of priorities. Those prioritizations are made by the elected officials.But how did the New York Police Department end up with the largest budget in the nation? Well, there are a lot of reasons. First, Mayor Rudy Giuliani's 1994 "broken windows" policing. It leaned into the belief that a small crime left un-policed would lead to big crimes.That led to mayor Michael Bloomberg's highly controversial police program, Stop, Question and Frisk.
But this NYPD budget doesn't even include debt payments, health insurance, known as fringe benefits, or the police pension. That pension alone is almost half as much as the NYPD budget. Combined, all this extra spending comes out to almost $4.8 billion in 2017. In 2017, the city paid out an estimated $335 million to settle past claims against the NYPD.
More responsibility on the police department hasn't necessarily created the desired outcome. In his 1994 crime bill, President Bill Clinton promised to:But studies show it had a modest to little effect on crime. In fact, crime rates had already been trending downward since the early '90s. Remember when Stop-and-Frisk was ruled unconstitutional? After the program slowed, there were fewer cops on the street and fewer arrests. Meanwhile, violent crime continued to decrease.
He basically urged police officers to stop making arrests in protest. And they did. But as arrests dropped by 27%, major crime also fell by about 20%. A 2016 report from the New York City Department of Investigation concluded that there is no evidence that the drop in felony crime observed over the past six years was related to quality of life summonses or quality of life misdemeanor arrests.
I wonder what the real price of adfirmative action is. But your “business” publication will never venture there. Hypocrites!
This is an NYPD and NYC issue and not the responsibility of all the other states to bail out their horribly mismanaged, financials. As a Florida Native... If I'm not bailing out Florida Law Enforcement... I'm sure the fuck not bailing out New Yorks!
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