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Citing Crime Spike, Shea Calls For Increase in NYPD Budget

By RICHARD KHAVKINE
Posted 5/17/21

Stanching the bloodshed of an increasingly violent year requires a reinvestment in the NYPD, Commissioner Dermot Shea argued during an occasionally contentious City Council committee hearing on the agency’s Fiscal Year 2022 budget last week. 

Lamenting that the department’s upcoming spending plan will be about the same as it was for FY 2021, Mr. Shea in his opening remarks said the Council needed to consider the effect on public safety of a stagnant policing budget. 

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