Mayor de Blasio Jan. 31 described the terms of the tentative Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association contract, which include a 2.25-percent pay increase above the city bargaining pattern that’s connected to the neighborhood-policing initiative, improved disability benefits for officers hired after 2009, and the requirement that all patrol cops by 2019 be equipped with body cameras, as “a moment of tremendous transformation in the NYPD.”
What made the numbers work for the city as well as the PBA, however, was a throwback to their past dealings: a reduced salary schedule for new hires that was designed to offset the cost of the additional pay raise in the five-year deal.
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