Subject: Re: You are your own first responder
New York City's police budget.

2021 - $5.27B
2020 - $5.78B

Going to the source gives me this:

Mar 18, 2022: "As updated in February 2022, the NYPD budget, including both the department's operating and central expenses for fringe benefits, pensions, and debt service, is $10.9 billion in fiscal year 2022, a $13 million decrease from the November 2021 financial plan.

Fiscal year 2023 spending is projected to be $10.8 billion, $83 million lower than fiscal year 2022. The agency's fiscal year 2023 operating budget is $216 million lower due mainly to federal security grants that likely will be received but have not been recognized yet.

https://cbcny.org/research/six....

And any decreases that are not temporary, simply waiting for federal security grants to be received, have nothing to do with defund the police demands. There are unavoidable budget constraints, as NYC is experiencing some significant losses in income due to the huge decrease in people working on-site in the city, with empty real estate, and people not spending for food and supplies in town.

And I recently heard Mayor Adams talk about plans to add funds for the police.

We are not an anti-police city. We are an anti-bad-police city. And anti- people who insist on such a falsely negative view of who we are and what our values are.