NYPD Chief of Department John Chell told Newsmax that crime caused by repeat offenders in New York City is already a concern, but if Democrat mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani wins in November and defunds the police force, the city “is going to have issues.”
“Our staffing is already down tremendously, and we got to fund our police officers,” Chell said on “Wake Up America” on Monday. “We have to pay them, we have to make sure the quality of life in their precincts are proper. We cannot go backwards. We really can’t. We’ve worked so hard post 2020 to get to a little light, if you will, to turn this thing around, to go backwards is not an option.
“If you don’t fund us, then people aren’t going to join the police department,” he said. “If you don’t give them a good contract, people are not going to join, and we’re going to have issues. But, at the end of the day, the cops in New York City, like everywhere else, took an oath. We will do our job to the best of our ability. We just need the tools to do it to keep the city safe.”
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