The New York City Council has approved a plan to shift $1 billion from police to education and social services in the fiscal year starting Wednesday.
New York’s City Council approved an austere budget early Wednesday that will shift $1 billion from policing to education and social services in the coming year, acknowledging protesters’ demands to cut law-enforcement spending but falling short of what activists sought.
The vote by the council came at an extraordinary moment when the nation’s biggest city is grappling simultaneously with a $9-billion revenue loss because of the coronavirus pandemic and with pressure to cut back on policing and invest more in community and social programs. Protesters have been camped outside City Hall, insisting that the city slash $1 billion from the New York Police Department’s budget amid a— a movement animated by outrage over the deaths of George Floyd and other Black Americans at the hands of police.
Critics of the deal said the billion-dollar cut wasn’t a billion-dollar cut at all. Some of the funding reduction, they noted, was merely shiftingAdvertisement Mayor Bill de Blasio supports the $88.2-billion spending plan. Council Speaker Corey Johnson said when the budget deal was announced Tuesday that it wasn’t what he had hoped for, and lamented that he hadn’t been able to negotiate a bigger police budget cut.
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