"Democratic leaders...are calling for a massive reduction in the NYPD's budget to show their "commitment towards moving away from the failed policing policies of the past. ”"

Snake Plissken, call your office. https://t.co/mSlDLlexdg

— Andrew Stuttaford (@AStuttaford) June 12, 2020

In reality, the NYPD has implemented the most successful policing policies of the last quarter century, as this graph from Wikipedia shows:

Cities are broke, so different interest groups that rely on taxpayer dollars are trying to throw each other from the sleigh to enlarge their share of the shrinking pie.

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