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One of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s (D) main political allies bragged that The Big Apple will not have more cops on patrol after the new budget was agreed to on Tuesday \u2014 despite NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch announcing<\/a> in June that more police would be hired.<\/p>\n City Council Member Tiffany Cab\u00e1n shared her glee on X, with a Canva-style graphic celebrating \u201cNo New Cops.\u201d<\/p>\n Cab\u00e1n noted there would be no increase to NYPD\u2019s headcount, and that the city would instead be focused on \u201chousing, mental health care, substance use treatment, and economic stability.\u201d She said those are \u201cthe proven policies that actually keep our communities healthy and safe.\u201d<\/p>\n The council member \u2014 who identifies as a queer abolitionist on her X account \u2014 took an obvious shot at the tough-on-crime policies of ex-NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani.<\/p>\n \u201cThis budget is an important check on the failed policy of broken windows policing and will allow us to build a public safety infrastructure rooted in care, not punishment and incarceration,\u201d Cab\u00e1n said. \u201cAnd we will keep building on it.\u201d<\/p>\n Her post about no new cops comes after Mamdani \u2014 a fellow Democratic Socialist \u2013 had said he would freeze police headcount. But his goal appeared to be in jeopardy after Tisch said during a City Council budget hearing earlier this month that the department planned on hiring another 550 officers this year<\/a>. That would increase uniformed headcount to 35,555 by the end of 2026 \u2014 which would be about a 1.5% increase on headcount compared to what it was under ex-Mayor Eric Adams (D).\u00a0<\/p>\n Instead, Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin struck a $125.8 billion deal on Tuesday that will keep NYPD headcount flat, as AMNY reported<\/a>. The outlet said it was \u201ca win\u201d for progressive NYC politicians, following Tisch\u2019s push to raise headcount.<\/p>\n Mamdani posted support for the \u201cdefund the police\u201d movement before he entered office. He also questioned what \u201cpurpose\u201d prisons serve, and appointed an adviser to his transition team who called for the \u201cabolition\u201d of cops. <\/a>It shouldn\u2019t come as a total shock that he didn\u2019t support hiring more police.<\/p>\n The post \u2018No New Cops!\u2019 Mamdani Ally Brags NYC Won\u2019t End Up Hiring More Police, Despite Previous Reports<\/a> first appeared on Mediaite<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Photos: CUNY TV on YouTube and ABC) One of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s (D) main political…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5302,9,24,56,63,65,64,33850,82],"class_list":["post-282679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-jessica-tisch","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-tiffany-caban","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282679","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=282679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}