Eric Adams, a former cop running for NYC mayor, calls for NYPD budget cuts
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June 23, 2020
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, the only NYC mayoral candidate with law enforcement experience has some suggestions on how the city should reform the NYPD — and is calling for budget cuts.
In a recently written report, Adams recommends the city drastically convert some NYPD units to an 80% civilian workforce, reduce overtime, and conduct forensic audits of the department’s budget.
“Diverting wasteful spending from the third-largest agency operating budget in our city is essential to combating our deficit, and ensuring that budgetary waste is redirected toward Black and Brown to Adams’ team, these efforts would result in reducing the budget by $1 billion or more.
His plan comes amid calls for significant budget cuts to the NYPD as the city is facing a $10 billion budget shortfall.
Adams’ other recommendations for the City budget include cutting fat through having more city employees work from home, eliminating patronage jobs at City Hall, the City Council and the borough presidents’ offices, as well as temporarily furloughing city workers who could apply for unemployment benefits that would “make them whole.”
