NYC Bad Idea Begins

All bad ideas seem to start in New York - how long until Conehead and the CPD brass attempt to steal this one?

• The safety dance begins.

  A progressive City Council member pushed a bill on Thursday to create a controversial “Department of Community Safety” pushed by Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani that would reshape the way the city responds to 911 calls.

  Brooklyn Democrat Lincoln Restler introduced the legislation as he claimed a majority of his council comrades support the new department intended to send civilian mental health professionals instead of cops to respond to many emergency calls.

  “We have a long way to go to negotiate the exact responsibilities of the agency, the staffing that will be required, the budget that will be necessitated, and we’ll work through those issues with the administration in the weeks and months to come,” he said. 

It might be coming sooner than you think.

CPD has plans to hire between three-hundred and three-hundred-fifty Officers in 2026.

Retirements are conservatively estimated at one-thousand for the year, meaning manpower is going to plummet another six-hundred-fifty.