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NYC to cut overtime pay for police despite being

understaffed by 'thousands'
Police unions say Mayor Eric Adams will 'jeopardize public safety'
By Anders Hagstrom Fox News

Published September 11, 2023 12:57pm EDT

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New York City will be cutting overtime pay for its police officers in an effort to pay for the
city's ongoing migrant crisis despite police complaints that they are already understaffed.

Mayor Eric Adams' administration has informed the city's police, fire, corrections and
sanitation departments that they must submit an overtime pay reduction plan and begin
tracking progress each month, City Hall confirmed to Fox News Digital. Police unions say
the plan will reduce the number of cops on patrol and make the city more dangerous.

"It isgoing to be impossible for the NYPD to significantly reduce overtime unless it fixes
its staffing crisis. We are still thousands of cops short, and we’re struggling to drive crime
back to pre-2020 levels without adequate personnel," Patrick Hendry, head of the Police
Benevolent Association, told the Post.

"IfCity Hall wants to save money without jeopardizing public safety, it needs to invest in
keeping experienced cops on the job," he added.

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New York City will be cutting overtime pay for its police officers in an effort to pay for the city's ongoing migrant crisis
despite police complaints that they are already understaffed.

Fox News Digital reached out to the four impacted agencies for comment, but they have
yet to respond. The Adams administration's plan also implements a hiring freeze. City Hall
confirmed it sent a memo notifying various agencies of the change, but it declined to
provide the document.

The cost-cutting program comes after Adams described the flow of migrants into NYC as
a "financial tsunami" on Sunday. He has in the past predicted that the migrant crisis will
"destroy" the city.

"We are about to experience a financial tsunami that don’t think the city has ever
I

experienced," Adams said in an interview with local media. "Every service in this city is
going to be impacted, from child service to our seniors to housing. Everything will be
impacted."

NYC has devoted massive resources to housing migrants, and some of the migrants have touted their amenities. (Selcuk
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NYC has devoted massive resources to housing the migrants, and some of the migrants
have touted their amenities.

A migrant from Venezuela told The New York Post that he was enjoying his stay at a
"migrant hotel" at the McCarren Play Center in New York City just days after Adams called
for a state of emergency over the migrant crisis .

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"Ibrought my wife and children to the pool on Sunday, and there was no problem," Mujica
said. "We all swam between 12 p.m. and 5 p.m.," Mujica said, adding, "It’s a very nice pool."

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Responding to criticism that his words were deemed "reckless," Mayor Adams said the
reality on the ground "was not an academic exercise."

"This is not a utopia. New York City cannot manage 10,000 people a month with no end in
sight," he said. "That can’t happen, and that is going to undermine this entire city."

Fox News' Bradford Betz contributed to this report.

Anders Hagstrom is a reporter with Fox News Digital covering national politics and major breaking
news events. Send tips to Anders.Hagstrom@Fox.com, or on Twitter: @Hagstrom_Anders.

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