Wednesday, January 11, 2017

NYPD Official Warns City About Trump's Impact on Police Budget

President-elect Donald Trump may blow up Mayor Bill de Blasio’s police budget.

A police budget official said Tuesday the New York Police Department will likely surpass its more than $550 million overtime budget because each day the president-elect resides inside his 58-story tower, located in the heart of Midtown Manhattan, presents a security job “larger than what the Secret Service could provide. 

And that will have to fall on the shoulders of the NYPD.”

And NYPD deputy commissioner of management and budget Vincent Grippo told the City Council that there may have to be cuts in the number of officers on patrol if Washington does not send enough funds to cover the cost of protecting Trump.

“If we get that reimbursement, we won’t have a problem at the end of the year,” he told lawmakers at a Council hearing on the costs of security for Trump Tower. “If we don’t get that reimbursement, we likely are. And the only option we would have to avoid that, would be to essentially take reductions from officers on patrol across the city to handle —“ 

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Source: Politico (via The Empire Report)

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