Even Democrats are getting on board with ramped-up policing to fight crime in the cities destroyed by cashless bail and anti-policing protests, if only to defeat Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani.
Democrat former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo threw his support behind outgoing Democrat Mayor Eric Adams’ proposal to hire 5,000 additional NYPD officers, framing it as a necessary step to combat police attrition and restore normal workloads within the department.
“We’re losing police officers at one of the highest rates of attrition because they’re so short-staffed they have to work all the time,” Cuomo said, the New York Post reported Saturday. “Hiring 5,000 police officers will actually give them enough staff where people can work normal shifts.”
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