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Days of Imperial Police Commissioners Over?

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 7/2/20

Mayor de Blasio and the City Council figured out how to trim $1 billion from the Police Department's budget, and it wasn't enough to satisfy the 500 people who had claimed the mantle of Occupy City Hall. 
 
They apparently are sophisticated enough to discern that shifting responsibilities away from the Police Department to save money is not the same as actually reducing the size of the police and school-security forces, yet lack the common sense to realize that at a time when shootings citywide are up 50 percent and murders continue to rise, getting their wish when a large police class was canceled at the same time that officers are retiring at an unusually high rate may not be a good thing.

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