Mayor, City Council Agree To Budget Deal With 1,300 More NYPD Cops

[Purveyor]

Source: Newsday

The NYPD will hire almost 1,300 more cops, under a deal struck by Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito.

The deal is a concession that follows months of the mayor insisting the city didn't need any more officers and the money should go to other budgetary needs.

Relenting to pressure from the council and his own police commissioner, de Blasio and his budget negotiators agreed to the first major head count increase in years: boosting the force beyond its current 35,000 officers. The pact came Monday as part of the $78.5 billion budget deal for the 2016 fiscal year, which starts July 1 of this year.

The deal was sealed late Monday night with a ceremonial handshake in the City Hall rotunda.

Read more: http://www.newsday.com/news/new-york/bill-de-blasio-city-council-agree-to-budget-deal-with-1-300-more-nypd-cops-1.10570161

[CTBlueboy]

1. smh

Teachers ?
Jobs Program?
Better housing?

nope
!!

lets add more cops on the beat , those cells cant stay empty gotta fill them up

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2. if it gets rid of the union's holy grail, overtime, this is a good thing nt