<p class="p1"><span class="s1">New York Mayor Bill de Blasio says he will shift $1 billion from the NYPD’s $5.9 billion budget to youth and social services as part of a police reform proposal that addresses protestors’ demands following the death of George Floyd. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">“People do not protest for the sake of protest, they protest to achieve change,&#8221; says de Blasio. &#8220;And now we must deliver that change.&#8221;</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">The proposal also seeks to m</span><span class="s1">ove code enforcement for street vending from the NYPD to civilian agencies, h</span><span class="s1">ire “community ambassadors&#8221; to act as liaisons between cops and civilians, and r</span><span class="s1">epeal a law that keeps police officers’ personnel records confidential.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">“I want it to be abundantly clear to all New Yorkers. These are first steps to what will be 18 months of making intense change in this city,” promised de Blasio. “This is a transformative moment.”</span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Speaking on WNYC radio’s “The Brain Lehrer Show,” de Blasio said that all agencies would face cuts, regardless of police reform, due to the coronavirus pandemic. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;">There will be cuts to “every single agency, uniform and civilian,&#8221; he said. Up to 22,000 municipal employees could lose their jobs.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">“If we don’t get another source of revenue, we literally have no choice but to start cutting back our workforce, which I do not want to do one bit,” continued de Blasio. </span><span class="s1">“I’m trying to find another source of revenue and there’s only two places I can get it: Washington, which isn’t acting, and Albany, which could give us the borrowing authority to help us tide over and I’m hoping to achieve that in the next few days.”</span></p>
<p>Economists predict New York City will lose $9 billion in revenue over the next two years as tourism declines, residents flee, and businesses close. <span class="s1"><i>To date, the city has reported more than 21,900 deaths from COVID-19. </i></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><b>Author’s Note:</b> Mayor Bill de Blasio is going to singlehandedly destroy New York City. The NYPD may need training and education (as does everybody), but not fewer cops. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani cleaned up the city by putting professional police officers on the streets and enforcing the law, not by caving to protestors’ demands. </span><span class="s1">Let’s just hope the city isn’t too far gone by next year’s election so that someone smarter can come in and fix de Blasio&#8217;s mistakes.</span></p>
<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s Note:</strong> This is the very definition of &#8220;mob rule,&#8221; one of the worst possible forms of government. A very few people riot and destroy property in New York and the mayor moves quickly to appease them. This will end badly.</p>