{"id":139354,"date":"2026-02-19T22:52:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T22:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/139354\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T22:52:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T22:52:16","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-mayor-mamdani-proposes-cutting-nypd-budget-cancels-5k-new-officer-hires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/139354\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Mayor Mamdani proposes cutting NYPD budget; cancels 5k new officer hires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Zohran Mamdani has proposed cutting $22 million from the NYPD budget during his fiscal year 2027 preliminary budget.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When we took office, we inherited a historic budget gap,&#8221; said Mayor Mamdani.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor is now tasked with closing a $5.4 billion deficit over the next two years. <\/p>\n<p>In addition to cutting funding from the NYPD, he has also announced the canceling of phased hiring of 5,000 new police officers that the Adam&#8217;s administration secured funding for back in October 2025.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s sending bad messages they can&#8217;t try to balance budgets on the backs of police officers and retirees,&#8221; said Patrick Hendry, president of the Police Benevolent Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Zohran Mamdani has proposed cutting $22 million from the NYPD budget during his fiscal year 2027 preliminary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,7739,34327,1445,22925,9,24,63,103,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-139354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-budget","12":"tag-budget-cuts","13":"tag-mamdani","14":"tag-mayor-zohran-mamdani","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-nypd","19":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}