NEW YORK CITY, NY - New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is reportedly looking to cut back on the NYPD’s budget and upend the prior administration’s plans to increase the size of the police force, with cuts in funding potentially as high as $22 million for the upcoming fiscal year.
At the close of former-Mayor Eric Adams’ term in office, the police captain turned politician sought to onboard 5,000 NYPD officers by July of 2028. However, once Mamdani got into office this past January, a myriad of Adams’ signed orders were upended by the self-described Democratic Socialist – including the plans to increase NYPD’s rank and file.
Furthermore, Mayor Mamdani’s tentative budget for the 2027 fiscal year signals potential cuts to the NYPD upwards of $22 million, noting that the administration is looking at “significantly reducing current vacancies,” which could translate into unfilled positions within the NYPD becoming nonexistent positions.
Aside from police budgets being targeted in Mayor Mamdani’s agenda, he stated during a February 17th news conference that efforts to address the city’s deficit would include methods not “typical” of administrations past.
“I know that for those who have watched budget after budget, it is tempting to assume that we are engaging in the same dance as our predecessors,” Mayor Mamdani stated, adding, “Let me assure you, nothing about this is typical. That's why our solutions won't be either.”
One of the more significant solutions proposed by Mayor Mamdani rests at the hands of state legislators passing laws that would increase taxes on the wealthiest individuals and corporations, an effort that falls in line with the Democratic Socialists of America’s slogan/policy prescription of taxing the rich.
Yet Mayor Mamdani warned that if state lawmakers can’t push through a higher tax rate for New York’s wealthiest inhabitants, he would enact the “only revenue lever” he has at the city-level which would be increasing property taxes.
“And if we do not go down the first path, the city will be forced down a second, more harmful path,” Mayor Mamdani stated, adding, “Faced with no other choice, the city would have to exercise the only revenue lever fully within our own control. We would have to raise property taxes.”
At the close of former-Mayor Eric Adams’ term in office, the police captain turned politician sought to onboard 5,000 NYPD officers by July of 2028. However, once Mamdani got into office this past January, a myriad of Adams’ signed orders were upended by the self-described Democratic Socialist – including the plans to increase NYPD’s rank and file.
Furthermore, Mayor Mamdani’s tentative budget for the 2027 fiscal year signals potential cuts to the NYPD upwards of $22 million, noting that the administration is looking at “significantly reducing current vacancies,” which could translate into unfilled positions within the NYPD becoming nonexistent positions.
Aside from police budgets being targeted in Mayor Mamdani’s agenda, he stated during a February 17th news conference that efforts to address the city’s deficit would include methods not “typical” of administrations past.
“I know that for those who have watched budget after budget, it is tempting to assume that we are engaging in the same dance as our predecessors,” Mayor Mamdani stated, adding, “Let me assure you, nothing about this is typical. That's why our solutions won't be either.”
One of the more significant solutions proposed by Mayor Mamdani rests at the hands of state legislators passing laws that would increase taxes on the wealthiest individuals and corporations, an effort that falls in line with the Democratic Socialists of America’s slogan/policy prescription of taxing the rich.
Yet Mayor Mamdani warned that if state lawmakers can’t push through a higher tax rate for New York’s wealthiest inhabitants, he would enact the “only revenue lever” he has at the city-level which would be increasing property taxes.
“And if we do not go down the first path, the city will be forced down a second, more harmful path,” Mayor Mamdani stated, adding, “Faced with no other choice, the city would have to exercise the only revenue lever fully within our own control. We would have to raise property taxes.”
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