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I committed to vote no on the City's FY21 budget if it did not cut at least $1B from the NYPD. Not moving budget lines around. But real, meaningful cuts. The budget being voted on tonight does NOT cut $1B from the NYPD. So I will be voting NO. THREAD
I approached this year’s budget with these principles in mind:
Divest from policing to preserve the social safety net.
Prioritize public health.
Invest in a just recovery.
Take a smart, long-term approach to our city’s economic health.
Reducing NYPD spending is BOTH:
a necessary first step toward transforming our approach to public safety (so we stop using policing to confront every problem from homelessness to mental health to DV to school safety)
AND:
a fiscal necessity this year given the pandemic.
According to new data from the @verainstitute, NYC spends far more per capita on policing than other American cities.
We have 1 NYPD officer for every 162 people. Los Angeles only has 1 officer for every 308, Houston every 360, and Phoenix every 380.https://www.vera.org/publications/what-policing-costs-in-americas-biggest-cities …
This budget imposes a hiring freeze on teachers, counselors, parks workers, nearly every agency. But it does not impose a hiring freeze on cops. More here on why the NYPD cuts are not real:https://gothamist.com/news/de-blasios-1-billion-nypd-budget-cut-based-gimmicks-and-fiction-councilmembers-say …
To be clear: I appreciate the work that @CoreyinNYC @Dromm25 & the @NYCCouncil Budget Negotiating Team did fighting for cuts to the NYPD and especially winning restoration of unconscionable cuts by the mayor to Fair Student Funding, SYEP, @cunyasap and other critical programs.
But hiring 1100 new cops (1 for every 2 who leave) and failing to be bolder in cutting the NYPD means hundreds of millions that we can’t spend on public schools, affordable housing, public health & other critical supports needed to get us through the trauma of this pandemic.
I also believe the mayor is failing in this budget to surge our public health capacity, failing to create a Public Health Corps to support social distancing, and failing to do all we can to prepare to re-open our schools safely & successfully this fall.
And by needlessly cutting the capital budget $2.3B for affordable housing, job creation & infrastructure (contrary to what Keynesian economics teaches us to do during a fiscal crisis) this budget does not invest smartly in our city’s economic recovery. https://on.nyc.gov/2YHqWdx
We aren’t going to transform our approach to public safety overnight. But let’s follow the Minneapolis City Council who voted to ambitiously replace their police department with a new Department of Community Safety & Violence Prevention. @LocalProgresshttps://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-council-puts-plan-to-abolish-police-in-motion/571500002/ …
I’m deeply disappointed w/this budget, but I’m not despairing. I’m energized by the diverse energy across our city to @changethenypd. Working together in our neighborhoods to overcome the COVID-19 crisis. And marching together in our streets to insist that Black lives matter.
So my vote today is not only a no-vote on the budget. Inspired by your organizing, it's also a promise: To fight harder for a real transformation in public safety, to prioritize public health & the social safety net, and to invest in a vibrant, sound & just recovery for NYC.
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