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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