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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Overtime is coded slavery. Most of that money goes to taxes. It’s better to have weekends at home with your family and getting decent pay for 40 hours/week then working overtime as if that’s something to brag about. America is so behind Europe and Canada when it comes to work life balance [/quote]

I’ve been out of school for a long time, has teaching about slavery changed? Were slaves highly compensated if they worked a lot more? There are hard charging officers out there voluntarily taking overtime and provided a much needed service.[/quote]

Slaves were  compensated. They didn’t have to pay rent or food. A slave with a rich master often lived better and had more skills and connections to upper class, than a free poor person operating under pure capitalism pre social safety net and working in a dangerous factory for 2 dollars a day living in a tenement.

According to new right wing ideas, social security should be abolished and people should work till they drop dead. Some should prepare to house and feed themselves at work in the case of doctors, nurses, essential workers. That sounds like a form of slavery. 50 year mortgages should now become the standard.  That also sounds similar to debt slavery.[/quote]

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