New York cuts police budget amid 'defund' calls

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

New York City lawmakers have approved a disputed budget that purports to slash $1 billion from the NYPD's annual budget as calls by anti-racism protesters to defund law enforcement sweep the United States.

"Defund the police" has become a rallying cry of the Black Lives Matter demonstrations that erupted following the killing in custody of African-American George Floyd in Minneapolis in May.

Protesters have camped outside New York's city hall the past week demanding that money be shifted from America's largest police force to social services to help fight racial injustice.

Late Tuesday, members of New York's city council approved the government's budget for the new fiscal year starting Wednesday that New York Mayor Bill de Blasio says cuts the NYPD's operating budget from about $6 billion to roughly $5 billion

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/new-york-cuts-police-budget-amid-defund-calls/ar-BB16cMXP?li=BBnb7Kz

[empedocles]

1. 'Defund' activists, in their tv glory minutes, featured 'unflatteringly', on fox.

[empedocles]

2. Angrily bashing Dems who don't agree with their position.

[Javaman]

3. how about they take those cut funds and create a new arm of the police force

called Social Services, oh wait, it already exists. AND IT'S GROSSLY UNDERFUNDED!!!

[sarisataka]

4. So will any of that billion cut from police

Go to Social Services?

Or is this just an appeasement to the protesters while not actually doing anything beneficial?

[Javaman]

5. I hope, but it's probably more an appeasement.

in other news: mayor de blasio builds himself a new palatial estate.