{"id":1514097,"date":"2022-06-13T17:04:38","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T21:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1514097"},"modified":"2022-06-13T17:04:43","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T21:04:43","slug":"nyc-mayor-police-exodus-great-opportunity-to-diversity-the-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyc-mayor-police-exodus-great-opportunity-to-diversity-the-department\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor: Police Exodus \u2018Great Opportunity To Diversity the Department\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnyc-mayor-police-exodus-great-opportunity-to-diversity-the-department%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1514097&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">New York City mayor Eric Adams (D.) said the record-setting exodus of officers from his city&#8217;s police force provides an opportunity to &#8220;diversify&#8221; the department&#8217;s ranks.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;No, it does not [concern me],&#8221; Adams told <em><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/cE2vot4e4SA?t=420\">Good Day New York<\/a><\/em>\u00a0on Monday when asked about the more than 1,500 officers who have either <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/06\/11\/nypd-cops-on-pace-to-quit-retire-in-record-numbers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resigned or retired<\/a> from the New York City Police Department this year. &#8220;We got an amazing recruitment campaign coming in. This is a great opportunity to diversify the department.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The NYPD&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.nyc.gov\/site\/ccrb\/policy\/data-transparency-initiative-mos.page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data<\/a> on its racial makeup show that the force is already representative of New York City&#8217;s diversity: The department is 44 percent white, 30 percent Hispanic, 15 percent black, 10 percent Asian, and less than 1 percent American Indian.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The number of officers leaving the NYPD has surged this year, with departures from the force up 38 percent from the same period last year, according to the <em>New York Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Adams, a former police captain, attracted controversy earlier this year when comments he made during a 2019 speech about his white colleagues in the NYPD resurfaced.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;I kicked those crackers&#8217; ass,&#8221; Adams said. &#8220;I was unbelievable in the police department.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Adams&#8217;s comments on Monday\u00a0come just days after the mayor approved a budget proposal that would keep police funding flat, even as New York City has seen a roughly 30 percent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www1.nyc.gov\/site\/nypd\/news\/p00041\/nypd-citywide-crime-statistics-march-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">uptick in its crime level<\/a>\u00a0since last year.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Adams on Monday boasted that the city&#8217;s budget increases will go toward park maintenance and sanitation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City mayor Eric Adams (D.) said the record-setting exodus of officers from his city&#8217;s police force provides an opportunity to &#8220;diversify&#8221; the department&#8217;s ranks. &#8220;No, it does not<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":929,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1514097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/929"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1514097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1514097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1514097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1514097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}