Public: "We need better police"
Police Union: "We need more money to train our officers better"
City Council and Public: "We must de-fund the police"
The quotes in this article, LITERALLY, shows how stupid the city council members of New York are.
New York Police Department's budget has been slashed by $1 billion
They just cut the NYPD budget by 20%.
Public: "Police Unions are bad, it makes it hard to remove bad cops"
Police Union: "Actually, no, Police Unions protect cops from shit like this."
This was a long time coming. Guess what though, when crimes rises in New York, the money will come back and you'll get back to regressive policing because the idiot Mayor will campaign on that.