Eric Adams Proposes a $98 Billion Budget With No Cuts for N.Y.P.D.
The New York Times
The mayor’s first budget proposal called for across-the-board cuts to most city agencies, as well as a reduction in the city’s work force.
Mayor Eric Adams, who rode a tough-on-crime platform to victory in November, has spent his first few weeks in office being buffeted by a spate of violent crimes in New York City, including the killing of two police officers.
On Wednesday, Mr. Adams got his chance to seize the initiative and detail his vision for the city, using his first executive budget proposal to showcase his intention to curtail some of the city’s free spending — cutting funding to most city agencies and pointedly avoiding an increase in the police budget. He argued that he could improve public safety without increasing police spending by moving officers from desks to the streets.
“We’re going to redeploy our manpower, we’re going to make sure that everyone who is supposed to be on the streets doing their job is doing their job, and then we will make the analysis if we have to put more money into it,” Mr. Adams said at a news conference at City Hall.
