The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association says the 1,297 additional cops agreed to by Mayor de Blasio and the City Council under the new city budget last week is not enough.
Those officers are “a drop in the bucket, since we have lost nearly 7,000 since since 2001,” President Patrick J. Lynch said in a statement. “Understaffing not only empowers criminals, but it leads management to make bad policy decisions like quotas for police activities in an effort to compensate for the shortage. The city should fill the new Police Academy now and keep filling it until we reach Safe Streets, Safe City levels of staffing before crime gets out of control.”
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