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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I didn’t realize Mayor-elect Mamdani has a plan to eliminate the NYPD overtime budget. That would have a substantial economic impact on every one of the NYPD’s 34,000 officers. Officers would, and should leave if the mayor actively takes money from them. As officers leave, the burden of policing NYC falls on a smaller force. Why would officers work overtime to make up for the departures if they aren’t going to get overtime pay?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/nyregion/nypd-mamdani-expectations.html
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Overtime isn't an entitlement. The NYPD budget is enormous and bloated. Cuts ought to start somewhere.[/quote]

Exactly, anyone that doesn’t like it can leave.

Buh bye.[/quote]

You have hit the nail on the head. Redirecting the NYPD overtime budget to other programs isn’t just #DefundThePolice, it is essentially #DefundPoliceOfficers. It would directly impact the rank and file officers.

Why should they stay if Mamdani takes 20%+ of their earnings away? People don’t realize that overtime can be forced. If you used to get paid extra for working extra, then they took it away and still expect you to work extra, would you stay?

The “buh bye” cavalier attitude about officers leaving when the NYPD can’t currently recruit fast enough to fully staff the department is short sighted, bordering on obtuse.

How many mental health calls will end up requiring a 911 call when the mental health professionals are overmatched?

Even if you remove all the mental health and homeless calls do you honestly think the pace officers have to work at will suddenly improve? It won’t. In a city of 8.5M people policing is an impossible job. Cops will still be overworked at full staffing levels. When officers start to leave that makes more work for the remaining officers.

The more I hear and read, the less optimistic I get about the future of the city. I’m old enough to remember a NYC where apartments had every window broken as high up as people could throw rocks, and torched cars with no wheels along the sides of the Cross Bronx Expressway.[/quote]

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