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Mayor Zohran Mamdani Puts Kibosh on Eric Adams' Plan to Hire 5,000 New NYPD Officers
Mamdani maintains NYPD budget near $6.4 billion, reallocates funds to underbudgeted needs, and postpones funding for mental health crisis program expansion, officials said.
- On Tuesday, Mamdani canceled the 5,000-officer plan and kept NYPD spending roughly flat near $6.4 billion, citing correction of underbudgeting.
- To cover underestimated costs, Mamdani said the preliminary budget directs $421 million toward items like NYPD overtime, aging police cars, and surveillance technology on Tuesday.
- Officials set aside $94 million for the Domain Awareness System, $54 million for IT maintenance, and about $29 million for the Civilian Complaint Review Board, while oversight funding remains flat.
- The move prompted immediate political blowback on Thursday as former Mayor Eric Adams called it "a serious mistake" and Patrick Hendry warned "we are losing 250 to 300 a month."
- Funding for Mamdani's Department of Community Safety and a B-HEARD expansion are absent from the preliminary plan, and the uniform head count is projected to remain just under 35,000 officers next year.
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Mayor Mamdani proposes cutting NYPD budget; cancels 5k new officer hires
In addition to cutting funding from the NYPD, he has also announced the canceling of phased hiring of 5,000 new police officers that the Adam's administration secured funding for back in October 2025.
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Democrat Mayor Considers Slashing Plan To Hire Thousands Of Police Officers In Budget Proposal * 100PercentFedUp.com * by Danielle
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani proposed canceling plans to hire 5,000 additional police officers in his first preliminary budget. Before he left office, former Mayor Eric Adams proposed that the New York Police Department (NYPD) hire 5,000 more officers. “Mamdani moved to cancel all orders signed by Adams following his Sept. 26, 2024, indictment,” Fox News stated. Among the canceled orders was the plan to hire additional officers. BREAKING:…
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