34,000 already employed by NYPD. Before overtime, $11 billion in taxpayer funds. Largest police force in world. Cuomo calling for 5000 more. Base starting salary alone: $300 million more. Could instead fund violence interruption & summer youth employment in every NYC neighborhood for 5 years. - ThreadSky

scotthech.bsky.social • 4 days ago

34,000 already employed by NYPD. Before overtime, $11 billion in taxpayer funds. Largest police force in world.

Cuomo calling for 5000 more. Base starting salary alone: $300 million more.

Could instead fund violence interruption & summer youth employment in every NYC neighborhood for 5 years.

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bridgetrollchic.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yall let this human STD Andrew Cuomo back in and he’s gonna come out as Felon’s buddy. These ousted criminals always switch over to that rapist’s side.

Let’s not forget the women Cuomo also violated. These smelly fucking filthy birds of the same feather fly together and crap on the rest of us.

brianstorm.ing•2 days ago

He already declared he'd work with Trump:

rejinl.bsky.social•3 days ago

Counterpoint: they'll all make arrests 5 minutes before their shifts end and gleefully cost us an additional 5000 more suburban warriors worth of overtime.

seed2bloom.bsky.social•2 days ago

It's definitely too soon for people to have to look at and listen to him again. Being tough on crime often equates to being a criminal nowadays! 47 & EA! 🙄🙄🙄

erohealthcomms.com•3 days ago

And the sad part is he’s going to win

nancyhicks.bsky.social•2 days ago

📌

koutavi.bsky.social•3 days ago

there are PLENTY of cops, they're just loitering en masse to be a "presence" or harassing harmless folks in train stations. the problem, as a resident who has called for police help and no one showed up, seems to be the cops we HAVE are useless.

direct money to programs that actually help please...

yaqube.bsky.social•3 days ago

oh no is The Dogshit Ad That Plays Every Fucking 15 Minutes not working https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQkZAe2AQKc

piglet.bsky.social•3 days ago

we could hire enough lifeguards! keep all the pools open all summer!

katemacfarlane.bsky.social•3 days ago

Seattle’s mayor pledged to hire 500 police officers. Last year he spent an *extra* $100 million to recruit and retain cops. The result: net increase of ONE cop.

https://ronpdavis.substack.com/p/harrells-hundred-million-dollar-spending

tiffanyleigh.bsky.social•3 days ago

Alt text so everyone else can read Andrew Cuomo's cop tweet

kashifpasta.com•3 days ago

Summer Youth Jobs program would literally be cheaper AND help small businesses AND start thousands of careers

defeline.bsky.social•3 days ago

That would be much more effective.

parasocialista.bsky.social•3 days ago

What are they being paid to do?

vitaminsteve.com•3 days ago

Andrew Cuomo just trying to get fellow Stanners jobs.

brettlorenzen.bsky.social•2 days ago

You would think the 40,000 security cameras that were supposed to "offset the need for human labor" might have, well, offset the need for more human labor….

44lights.bsky.social•2 days ago

System down….

brokwindsor.bsky.social•2 days ago

All that payroll and the NYPD is this the most corrupt POS police department in America.

One just needs to look at their current Mayor to see the kind of crooks they produce.

The NYPD is the largest, most dangerous criminal gang in America.

pattepa.bsky.social•2 days ago

$60k per officer seems a little low. More like $200k+ per officer.

kaiten9653.bsky.social•3 days ago

I am so tired of politics as performative art. The only reason to add more police is for the theater of being tough on crime without the substance of crime reduction. Baudrillardian approach to governance

historiken.bsky.social•3 days ago

the other reason is to butter up (and bulk up) a constituency that can and will break you if you cross them

sgtjamesway.bsky.social•3 days ago

Cuomo is evidence that shit floats.
Tappanzee bridge forever!

starlightwishes.bsky.social•2 days ago

But he wouldn't have as much fun hurting people.

Cuomo killed untold numbers of New York Seniors who were in nursing homes. He's a MASS MURDERER!

turquoise919.bsky.social•3 days ago

Basically these will be soldiers asked to “fight” the protesters as NYC is sure to see plenty of it this spring and summer.

captainles.bsky.social•3 days ago

Cuomo wants to add more headcount to the NYPD because he knows 90% of the force spends 75% of its time thinking of ways to not go to work but still get paid.

Injury / disability claims are rampant. +35% of retirees were early disability. In 2014 100+ were indicted for SSDI fraud.

charliemas.bsky.social•3 days ago

Despite what the copaganda tells you, having more police will not prevent crime, stop crime, or solve crimes. At least not to a meaningful degree. Having more police will, in fact, create crime.

Counterintuitive, but think of all the things that only become a crime when a cop sees it happen.

charliemas.bsky.social•3 days ago

If you want to dispute this, answer this question:

How long do you think it would take for a police officer driving behind you to find a reason to pull you over? Five minutes? Ten minutes? Longer?

Cops create crime.

charliemas.bsky.social•3 days ago

Imagine: A person walks across a quiet street mid-block. No one is inconvenienced, and there's no risk to public safety. No big deal.

Until a police officer sees it happen.

Now it's jaywalking. And when the jaywalker objects to the harassment it becomes obstruction, resisting, and maybe assault.

philadlj.bsky.social•3 days ago

Could NYC maybe not elect a cop-humping creep?

molly1jo.bsky.social•2 days ago

Please?🤞🏻🙏🏻🤞🏻

sattelliteoflove.bsky.social•2 days ago

I see he's name-dropping the last good mayor of that town.

subtle

joshcrowley.bsky.social•3 days ago

Cops get infinite increases to budgets even though there's no evidence at all that increasing police funding reduces crime in any way. Meanwhile there are mountains of evidence that reducing poverty and funding social programs reduces crime. Seems like the point isn't actually to reduce crime!

historiken.bsky.social•3 days ago

he likes the corruption and wants more of it

suuzyb.bsky.social•2 days ago

Or they could fund social services to reduce poverty, promote education and job skills which would, in turn, reduce crime by helping to halt generational poverty.

jay-baller-reborn.bsky.social•3 days ago

I guess instead 4 cops on their phones in the subway they want 8

hapynobody.bsky.social•3 days ago

I can't believe he's running for mayor after his despicable behaviour. Some people just have no shame.

ysosidious.bsky.social•2 days ago

California, see their governor, and New York are filled with neoliberals who are happy to collaborate with fascism to dismantle the New Deal and wind us back over a century on human rights. Enough is enough. All of those who got us here and willing to continue Reaganomics need to be gone for good.

ysosidious.bsky.social•2 days ago

If their answer to our problems is a police state then how can you say their policies are any good or any different than fascism? FDR needed no police state. Crime is a policy failure, and neoliberalism is the policies that fail us.

realzealman.bsky.social•3 days ago

Abuser cuomo really needs to jog off. We do not want him, sam I am, we do not want this man.

cstarks.bsky.social•3 days ago

Come on. Every increase in headcount is an invitation to expand overtime

cstarks.bsky.social•3 days ago

I mean, Tesla showrooms are only the beginning. Imagine what they could pay their people to stand in front of if they had even more people capable of being paid overtime!

kevin2170.bsky.social•2 days ago

Replacing Adams with Cuomo would be so LOL on the nose for NYC it’s destined to happen.

4863media.com•3 days ago

relative size of the police force goes down = crime goes down, ergo police cause crime.

fplynch.bsky.social•3 days ago

Thank you for this; the number we had under Dinkins is not the metric.

caliwash83.bsky.social•3 days ago

In that span of 1 million more New Yorkers, has the per capita crime increased?

According to NYPD, all citywide measures of crime are down from 2000:
https://www.nyc.gov/site/nypd/stats/crime-statistics/historical.page

A few are trending upwards, so maybe a few hundred more police are needed, but 5,000? Seems like he's just pandering.