NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly warned Thursday that the city’s budget woes will plunge the number of cops on the street to the lowest levels since 1990.
Kelly told a City Council budget hearing that financial constraints will trim the NYPD to a 20-year low of 32,817 officers in the 2011 budget.
The NYPD would lose 892 officers through attrition under Mayor Bloomberg’s proposed $46.5 billion spending plan for next year.
Kelly insisted the department would continue to do more with less, but acknowledged the cuts are having an effect.
Operation Impact, the initiative that floods crime hot spots with rookie cops, may soon pack less punch.
While Kelly said his force will deal with cutbacks through attrition, the city’s district attorneys testified they may have to hand out pink slips to prosecutors to bring costs under control.
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Get ready for the Dinkin years all over again. And the criminals know it. We must start up private patrols in the neighborhoods.
#1 THIS IS NO TIME TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT DONUTS AND OTHER BREAKFAST PASTRIES. THIS IS A CRITICAL TIME FOR THE NYPD AND WE NEED TO BE SERIOUS JUST THIS ONE TIME. FORGET ABOUT BREAKFAST FOR JUST ONE MINUTE! TIZKU LAMITZVOT
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I AM HIGHLY DISAPPOINTED BY THAT FOOD REMARK.CAN YOU NOT SEE WE HAVE MUCH BIGGER PROBLEMS THAN OUR STOMACHS.THIA IS A TIME TO DO TESHUVAAND WILL THAT BE CONQUERED BY THE WAY SOMEONE EATS? YES WE EAT KOSHER BUT THATS NOT WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT.