NYPD overtime spending has steadily increased over the years. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. “[These budgeted overtime cuts] are not realistic. “This movement is about so much more than the $1 billion, and this means they don’t understand what we’re saying.”. Most of that police department funding comes from the city, with a few hundred million from state and federal grants. According to Robert Gangi, director of the Police Reform Organizing Project — a public advocacy group — the NYPD’s rampant overtime spending stems from a lack of oversight. Cuts would come from canceling a nearly 1,200-person police recruiting class set for next month — though another class in October is scheduled to go forward — as well as halving overtime spending, redeploying officers from administrative functions to patrol and ending police responsibility for school crossing guards and homeless outreach. Experts in both the city’s Independent Budget Office (IBO) and in the policing justice ecosystem argue that officials lack the stomach to actually prevent the NYPD from going over budget with overtime and that these cuts are therefore unlikely to happen. Pension contributions and fringe benefits cost about another $5 billion in the 2020 fiscal year. They just want families and young people to be treated fairly,” said Councilwoman Vanessa Gibson, who represents a Bronx district where over half of residents are Hispanic and about 40% are Black. And unlike other agencies that had to find large savings under the mayor’s $2.1 billion Program to Eliminate the Gap, the NYPD only found about $25 million in FY2020 and $16 million in FY2021.

“I’m sure they’ll get to that 800 million number,”.

Though the mayor’s budget included significant planned cuts at many city agencies, the NYPD emerged relatively unscathed, with only $23.8 million in planned reductions. While City officials pledged over the summer to cut close to $1 billion in police spending, activists maintain that the city is simply playing a budgetary shell game to give the appearance of reductions while dismissing demands to defund. He vowed the changes would not compromise public safety. At $5.9 billion in the current fiscal year, the NYPD has the third-largest budget of all city agencies after the Department of Education and Department of Social Services. “And I also will affirm while doing that, we will only do it in a way that we are certain continues to ensure that this city will be safe.”. The mayor’s announcement was welcomed by many of his fellow Democrats and by activists, though they noted it remains to be seen how far those cuts will go. By clicking "Subscribe," above, you acknowledge that the information you provide will be transferred to MailChimp for processing in accordance with their, ‘Defund the NYPD’? What’s Really in the New York City Police Department Budget, As Unemployment and Crime Spike, City Plan for Disconnected Young Adults Remains Years Behind Schedule, A Month After Historic Curfew, Many Unanswered Questions About How City Policed Protests, Looting, Max & Murphy Podcast: Teachers Union President Michael Mulgrew on Reopening New York City Schools, Black Business Owners Hang On Through Covid Crisis as Black Lives Matter Movement Surges, How 2021 Mayoral Candidates Have Responded to the Coronavirus Fallout and Cries for Police Reform. Many said they intended to stay outside City Hall indefinitely. The city budget totaled nearly $93 billion when passed last June. “Whether the name of the mayor has been Giuliani, Bloomberg, or de Blasio, [the] NYPD has seemingly been able to generate overtime as it sees fit,” Turetsky wrote. “We’re in the middle of what we think is going to be the biggest fiscal and economic crisis of our generation so the city really needs to be taking a close look at everything,” Champeny said. New York City lawmakers have passed a new budget, cutting $1B from the NYPD, but a recent rise in gun violence is raising concerns that they may have gone too far. “I did my best.”, NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea says the $1B cut to the NYPD budget 'will impact how we police.'.

“We are being gaslit," said activist Jawanza James Williams. The NYPD budget is now around $6 billion, plus several billion dollars more in shared city expenses such as pensions. The $5.9 billion in direct operating funding for the department doesn’t nearly cover what the police cost in New York City. Critics point to the city’s promise to reduce overtime spending from $820 million to $268 million as an egregious example of this deception. The nonprofit recommended several measures to cut down on overtime, though some would require bargaining with police unions to change work rules. At the same time, the mayor slashed planned funding for education, youth employment, and after school programs. He also said the police would no longer conduct enforcement over street vendors and instead that function would be given to a civilian agency. That when they go to get their education, that they should be policed?” he said. In fiscal year 2020 New York City’s expenses for the New York City Police Department (NYPD) will total $10.9 billion, comprised of the $5.6 billion NYPD operating budget and $5.3 billion of costs “centrally allocated,” including $2.3 billion for fringe benefits, $2.8 billion for pensions, and $215 million for debt service. The Mayor’s Office of Management and Budget does publish a “budget function analysis” that outlines different functions of NYPD spending but they are broad lumped categories with brief descriptions that cover hundreds of millions in allocations. “Is this the message that we want to send to our children?

There are capital funds allocated to policing infrastructure, including roughly $411 million in city funds in the 2021 fiscal year for cars and precincts, and another $211 million in expense funding spent on debt service for police-related capital costs that is not factored into the NYPD’s budget.

At $5.9 billion in the current fiscal year, the NYPD has the third-largest budget of all city agencies after the Department of Education and Department of Social Services. The new plan calls for an ambitious, nearly $300 million cut in police overtime. “What is the city’s priority? The vast majority of this overtime is spent on functions that mostly deal with low-level offenses, Vitale explains. Gotham Gazette is published by Citizens Union Foundation and is made possible by support from the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Altman Foundation,the Fund for the City of New York and donors to Citizens Union Foundation. De Blasio said details were being worked out, but the Education Department would train the agents. Champeny echoed Richards’ and Stringer’s prescriptions on cutting overtime and reducing the NYPD’s headcount. Developed in conjunction with Joomla extensions. Ana Champeny, director of city studies at Citizens Budget Commission, a fiscal watchdog, said it’s hard to figure out how the NYPD spends its funds because its budget is opaque to the public. NEW YORK - New York City lawmakers 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 police spending — but falling short of what activists sought. According to the Citizen Budget Commission of New York (CBC-NY), between 2014–2020, the NYPD averaged $711 million in yearly overtime. It comprised about 6% of the city’s total $92.8 billion adopted budget for the current fiscal year (FY2020). The NYPD budget is now around $6 billion, plus several billion dollars more in shared city expenses such as pensions. Now celebrating its 20th anniversary, The Indypendent is still standing but it’s not easy. According to an analysis by the Independent Budget Office, about 88.8% of the department’s adopted budget in Fiscal Year 2019 covered personnel services (salaries, wages and overtime) while 11.2% went to “Other than Personal Services” (OTPS) to fund purchase of supplies and equipment. Council budget leaders said they needed to balance calls to cut policing with residents' concerns about safety. But some other members said the budget proposal didn't dig deep enough into police spending.

The department paid out $115 million in overtime just during recent protests over Floyd's May 25 death in Minneapolis. According to the Citizen Budget Commission of New York (CBC-NY), between 2014–2020, the NYPD averaged $711 million in yearly overtime. “I am disappointed,” Johnson said at a news conference.

Yet for some activists the question of why the NYPD’s overtime budget has been allowed to expand is mute. It is FREE! The vast majority of this overtime is spent on functions that mostly deal with low-level offenses, Vitale explains. Now, Johnson has said he was wrong to support the expansion. “For the first three months of the current fiscal year, which began in July, NYPD has recorded overtime costs for uniformed officers of nearly $86 million,” wrote Doug Turetsky, the chief of staff and communications director for New York City’s Independent Budget Office — a publicly funded agency that provides information about New York City’s budget to the public — in an emailed comment to The Indypendent. Critical early support to Gotham Gazette was provided by the Charles H. Revson Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. About $11 billion from the City’s budget are allocated to the NYPD. Please consider supporting Citizens Union Foundation's public education programs. Make a recurring or one-time donation today or subscribe to our monthly print edition and get every copy sent straight to your home. Richards also raised a concern that the mayor himself acknowledged on Sunday. “I don’t want anyone to misunderstand and think that we don’t care and that we have not been working our behinds off to get to a place of equity," while ensuring communities "are not left behind with crime, violence, illegal guns in our communities, no programs, no activities, and no hope for a better tomorrow," Gibson said.