CONTACT:
Albert O’Leary 212-298-9190
Joseph Mancini: 212-298-9150
John Nuthall: 212-298-9187
PBA president Lynch said:
“Hiring 1,000 new police officers is a drop in the bucket since we have lost nearly 7,000 since since 2001. Under staffing not only empowers criminals, but it leads management to make bad policy decisions like quotas for police activities in an effort to compensate for the shortage. The City should fill the new Police Academy now and keep filling it until we reach Safe Streets, Safe City levels of staffing before crime gets out of control.”