Mayor Eric Adams' ambitious $225 million plan to develop a 16-agency public safety training facility at the NYPD academy is facing significant backlash from Democratic primary challengers and even NYPD officers. Critics argue that this investment does not tackle the urgent hiring and retention crisis within the police force. Prominent figures, such as Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani and State Senator Jessica Ramos, suggest that funds would be better allocated towards increasing officer salaries and improving essential public safety services. Adams contends that the facility would ensure efficiency and save taxpayer money, yet there is skepticism about the true financial implications, as City Hall has not provided cost-saving estimates.
From an NYPD perspective, it's dumb. The NYPD does everything anyway - we do everyone's job, and now we're going to train other agencies to continue to not do our job.
It's another Eric Adams boondoggle of taxpayer dollars. The money would be better spent on increasing base pay, among other bread-and-butter public safety items.
Adams claimed that putting all the city's public safety training in one facility would be more efficient and save taxpayers money, but City Hall did not provide an estimate.
Quite frankly, the Adams administration doesn't care what a bunch of 'defund the police' career bureaucrats have to say about public safety.
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