It’s an age old tactic by D mayors to cut PD overtime.
They overspend to no end, do all sorts of freeloader money giveaways all the time, hoarding grant monies, strategic re-distributions when it’s politically advantageous - but never, ever keep a public safety rainy day piggy bank.
They all cry poor-mouth at each and every PD contract negotiation. They don’t do this with teacher union walk outs and strike threats.
In Chicago, past mayors have done this as a measure to not only demoralize the rank and file, but to vilify LE in order to foment the public that it’s greed behind every police contract.
I expect more of the same coming very soon from our newly elected, slow to respond, Marxist and this is also because of the costs of illegal migrantion on top of all the other city services that are subject to budget cutting - except education of course. NYC and the league of all D mayors are schooled by Chicago tactics.
There’s nothing wrong with measures to cut spending as part of a well managed system. But that’s not what they’re doing, continued overspending and mismanagement of budgeted funds is what Chicago is known for. It points to the elected and appointed city leaders with their pandering, their agendas and the messages they want to convey to the sheep that voted for them.
For that it’s worth, NYC under deBlasio spent $1 billion to solve a homeless problem by creating a program headed up by his now ex-wife. Yes, fund was squandered and went unaccounted for, all the while homelessness escalated and that corrupt program is now defunct. No questions answered about that criminal fiasco, but now NYC needs money for imported problem they originally thought was a grand humanitarian idea.
