{"id":2028453,"date":"2023-09-11T18:41:06","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T22:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-city-to-reduce-overtime-pay-for-nypd-amid-staffing-shortage-to-fund-migrant-crisis\/"},"modified":"2023-09-11T18:43:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T22:43:32","slug":"new-york-city-to-reduce-overtime-pay-for-nypd-amid-staffing-shortage-to-fund-migrant-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-city-to-reduce-overtime-pay-for-nypd-amid-staffing-shortage-to-fund-migrant-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC to cut NYPD overtime pay to address staffing shortage and support migrant crisis."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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%2Fnew-york-city-to-reduce-overtime-pay-for-nypd-amid-staffing-shortage-to-fund-migrant-crisis%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=2028453&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--><h2>New York City Takes Measures\u200c to Address Migrant Crisis and Budget Constraints<\/h2>\n<p>In an effort to address the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/reacting-to-furious-leftist-backlash-psaki-blames-reaction-to-bidens-refugee-policy-on-confusion\/\" title=\"Reacting To Furious Leftist Backlash, Psaki Blames Reaction To Biden\u2019s Refugee Policy On \u2018Confusion\u2019\">ongoing migrant crisis<\/a> and alleviate budget constraints, New \u200bYork City is implementing measures to reduce overtime pay\u200d for officers in the New York Police Department (NYPD). Despite concerns about\u2063 a staffing shortage, Mayor Eric Adams&#8217;s budget \u2062director, Jacques Jiha, has instructed various city departments to devise plans for cutting their high overtime budgets and monitor\u200c their progress on a monthly \u2063basis.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe mayor \u2064will\u2064 \u2026 issue a \u200ddirective\u200d to implement an overtime reduction initiative for our city\u2019s\u200b four\u200b uniformed agencies (NYPD, FDNY, DOC\/DSNY),\u201d Jiha said in a memo obtained by the New York Post. \u201cThese agencies must submit a plan to reduce year-to-year OT spending.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Additionally, a \u200bhiring freeze has been \u200bimposed on the NYPD, FDNY,\u200c DOC, and DSNY, preventing them from filling\u200b staffing gaps. However, police unions argue that this move may <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-city-to-reduce-overtime-pay-for-nypd-amid-staffing-shortage-to-fund-migrant-crisis\/\" title=\"NYC to cut NYPD overtime pay to address staffing shortage and support migrant crisis.\">compromise public safety due<\/a> to a decrease in the \u2062number of officers on the streets.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt is going \u200dto be impossible\u200b for the NYPD to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nypd-overtime-cut-despite-crime-spike-amid-staggering-cost-of-illegal-immigration-crisis\/\" title=\"NYPD reduces overtime despite crime surge amidst high cost of illegal immigration crisis.\">significantly reduce overtime<\/a> unless\u200d it fixes its staffing crisis,&#8221; Patrick Hendry, head of the Police Benevolent Association, said. \u201cWe \u2064are still thousands of cops short, \u200cand we\u2019re struggling to drive crime back to pre-2020 levels without adequate personnel. If\u200d City Hall \u2062wants to save money without <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-files-scotus-brief-in-case-over-biden-refusal-to-deport-violent-criminal-illegal-aliens\/\" title=\"Florida Files SCOTUS Brief in Case Over Biden Refusal to Deport Violent Criminal Illegal Aliens\">jeopardizing public safety<\/a>, it needs to invest in keeping experienced cops on the job.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The directive does not permit\u2064 the\u200b reduction of existing positions or the creation of new ones, but it does allow for the filling of necessary vacancies.\u200c Mayor\u200c Adams has emphasized\u200d the impact of\u200b the\u2062 migrant crisis\u200d on\u200c the city, estimating that it\u2063 will cost $12 billion by 2025 and affect\u2062 various aspects of New York City&#8217;s services and \u200dinfrastructure.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We\u200d are about \u2063to experience a financial tsunami that\u2063 I don\u2019t think the\u200d city has ever experienced,&#8221; Adams said Sunday. &#8220;Every \u200cservice\u200c in this city is going to be impacted, from child service to our seniors to housing. Everything will be impacted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As\u200b part of his plan, Mayor Adams \u200bhas proposed a \u200c5% budget cut across \u200ball city agencies \u2063for the November budget, with the possibility of increasing it to a 15% reduction by April. The plan also includes cuts \u200bin services provided \u2062to asylum-seekers, restrictions on official out-of-town travel, and\u2063 a ban on purchasing new\u200c equipment.<\/p>\n<p>These\u200d measures aim to address the financial challenges \u2064posed by the\u200c migrant crisis \u200cwhile ensuring \u200bthe city&#8217;s\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nascar-teams-call-revenue-model-broken\/\" title=\"NASCAR Teams Call Revenue Model \"Broken\"\">long-term stability<\/a> and the safety\u200d of its residents.<\/p>\n<h3>Read more:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">The Washington Examiner<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City will cut overtime pay for officers in the NYPD to allocate funds for the migrant crisis, despite a staffing shortage. Mayor Eric Adams&#8217;s budget director, Jacques Jiha, instructed the police, fire, sanitation, and corrections departments to devise alternative solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2028454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2028453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028453","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2028453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2028454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2028453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2028453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2028453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}