Bratton warns NYPD will suffer ‘crisis’ shortage of ranks for next few yearsBy Sam Raskin
July 10, 2022
Ex-Big Apple top cop Bill Bratton is warning that the city will face a “crisis”-level shortage of Finest over the next few years due to the spate of departures among frustrated ranks and the defund-the-police movement.
The former commissioner of New York City’s police force issued the dire forecast during a radio appearance that aired Sunday — amid record-setting NYPD retirements and resignations and the City Council and Mayor Eric Adams finalizing a spending plan that modestly ups police funding but does not add more personnel.
“Mayor Adams was not able to get an increase in the size of the department with the City Council. He didn’t try to get an increase because he knew that the progressive wing of that City Council, which is 32 of its 51 members, under no circumstance would support more money for more cops,” said Bratton, referring to the body’s Progressive Caucus, on WABC’s “The Cats Roundtable, hosted by John Catsimatidis.
“So, effectively, the department is growing smaller, not getting larger,” Bratton said. “You can offset that with the use of overtime, but the overtime becomes a problem because [some] officers [will] make so much from overtime this year that a lot of them are going to retire next year because their pension is based on their last couple of years of salary plus overtime.”
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https://nypost.com/2022/07/10/bratton-warns-nypd-will-suffer-crisis-shortage-of-ranks/