Sentences with phrase «budgeted number of police»

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Every city recruits its police force differently based on budgets, existing crime rates, density, and a number of other complex socioeconomic factors (like the area's racial makeup).

Police Commissioner William Bratton, who has gone back and forth on the proposal in the last year, said during a Council budget hearing that the department would seek an unspecified number of new officers.

De Blasio has proposed increasing the number of NYC police officers on the streets — while keeping the police department's overall head count steady — as part of negotiations with the City Council over the budget.

State leaders and Thruway officials in recent years have undertaken a number of cost - cutting measures, including staff layoffs and having the State Police budget absorb the cost of patrolling the toll roads, an expense that had previously been on the Thruway's books.

She said the city does not have the budget to hire more than the current number of vacant police officer positions.

At the Council budget hearing, Bratton characterized the reduction of 6,000 police officers as a «huge loss,» saying it amounted to the entire number of officers hired under former Mayor David Dinkins.

Topics in the Q&A included the source of money for the City's planned pre-K advertising campaign, the City's target number of pre-K applicants, whether Speaker Silver thinks the proposed income tax surcharge should be pursued next year, how the pre-K selection process will work, how the City will cover the approximately $ 40 million annual gap between the estimated cost of pre-K and the amount provided in the state budget, when parents will learn whether their pre-K application has been accepted, how the City will collect data and measure success of the pre-K program, whether the existing pre-K application process will be changed, how the City will use money from the anticipated school bond issue, the mayor's reaction to a 2nd Circuit ruling that City may bar religious groups from renting after - hours space in public schools, the status on a proposed restaurant in Union Square, a tax break included in the state budget that provides millions of dollars to a Bronx condominium project, the «shop & frisk» meeting today between the Rev. Al Sharpton and Police Commissioner Bratton and a pending HPD case against a Brooklyn landlord.

We have recently written about the increases in the number of crimes recorded — at the same time as the budget for the police gets smaller and the number of officers on the street fewer.

Focused on a number of priorities, including reducing violent crime and gun violence; fostering community engagement; police recruitment; training and integrity; and the use of technology to enhance efficiency and effectiveness with budget challenges.

Information about the fiscal differences between various development patterns is critical because decisions about where and how to focus growth ripple through municipal budgets in any number of ways, from the cost of constructing roads and providing police and fire service to property values and tax collections.