Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Political establishment takes a hit as supreme chaos reigns Twitch temporarily suspends Trump account for ‘hate behavior’ Steyer backs Markey in Massachusetts Senate primaries MORE (DN.Y.) said New York City’s proposed $ 1 billion cut from the police department’s budget tiptoes closer to the demands of activists calling for less police presence.
Although the plan proposed by the Mayor of New York City Bill de Blasio
Bill de BlasioDe Blasio agrees to cut $ 1 billion from the NYPD budget. New York City may delay the reopening amid growing cases elsewhere in the United States. The Hill’s Morning Report – COVID-19 alarms increase Trump under fire over Russia MORE (D) cuts a sixth of the New York Police Department’s (NYPD) budget, activists say much of it would be transferred to other city departments, including the Department of Education, where it could pay police in schools. Activists have advocated eliminating school officials entirely.
“Defining the police means defining the police,” the congresswoman said in a statement. “It doesn’t mean budget tricks or fun math. It does not mean transferring school police officers from the NYPD budget to the Department of Education budget, so exactly the same police remain in the schools. ”
De blasio he said at a press conference on Monday that his office submitted a budget to the New York City Council over the weekend that “would save a billion dollars” for the New York police.
Anthonine Pierre, spokesperson for United Communities for Police Reform, said in a local television interview that de Blasio is “doing fun math and playing the PR games he always plays “on the pitch.
“It appears that the mayor is trying to use the talking points to underfund the police without complying with the demands,” said Pierre.
Calls to disburse the police and earmark government funds for other social services have gained momentum in the weeks after the May 25 death. George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police. The mayors of San Francisco and Los Angeles have pledged to cut police budgets, while city halls in places like Washington, DC, has passed a blackboard of reform measures to improve supervision of law enforcement.
Ocasio-Cortez said cutting the police budget is not effective if it does not result in the reduced presence of the police.
“It doesn’t mean counting overtime cuts as cuts, even when New York City police ignore all City Council attempts to curb overtime spending and overtime overspending anyway,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “If these reports are accurate, these proposed ‘cuts’ to the New York police budget are a delusion. This is not a victory. The fight to eliminate the police continues. “
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