NYPD is getting 35 Million from Federal Funding

[NYPD13]

I just heard this on the radio at 5:45am on 1010wins. There should be more information later on today.

[NYJets44288]

Heard it. Hope it's not for cameras or something lol.

[NYPD13]

lol...some money is going to that too. I saw unfinished installation of the cameras on 14th and 9th or 10th avenue. Those are a waste of money. Physical appearance of a police officer will be more of a presence then a camera. Even though it cost more to have uniforms on the street.

[PBXTech]

I just heard this on the radio at 5:45am on 1010wins. There should be more information later on today.


The CW11 news said the money would be used to hire 120 new Police Officers.

[Strength&Honor]

http://ny1.com/content/top_stories/103110/transit-police-to-get-federal-funds/Default.aspx

It is from the Homeland Security Program and it's going towards transit.

120 additional cops as opposed to only 50 additional cops from the COPS program.

Hey it is something...

[NyPd G]

It's not enough! I wanna get in already

[NyPd G]

120 new hires would be 90% cadets

[bkny27]

120 could be all cadets at that number.

[NYJets44288]

This number has been earmarked for this program for months now... It's all bull in order to make it seem like we're getting better than everyone else. Every department with major, major transit lines is receiving the same kind of money, and some departments are receiving COPS grants in addition to it. Last time I read about this program it said they were getting money for 180 officers to be sent to transit.

[nasa808]

Transit cops? How do we know they are going to be NYPD? Last time I checked Grand Central and Penn Station ( both in NYC )are home to many different Transit Officers. Something to think about.

[NYJets44288]

No its been issued to the NYPD itself. I think MTA got its own or else it got none at all. I'd sure as hell love if they called me! Damn "lottery" system tests...

[richbrown123456]

I guess bloomberg didnt learn his lesson about smoke screens and putting up false information.

[zerepela610]

http://www.ny1.com/Default.aspx?ArID=103110

Watch the video. When Peter Vallone says the way they balance the budget is by completely cutting the 2010 class.......... that's very scary....

[NYPD13]

http://www.ny1.com/Default.aspx?ArID=103110

Watch the video. When Peter Vallone says the way they balance the budget is by completely cutting the 2010 class.......... that's very scary....

There just playing politics with the government. It's a cat and mouse game where you say something (Cancelling the Academy) and the other person (government) allocates the funds to New York. Bloombergs plan backfired on him. At the end, he said they cannot eliminate the police class and that Naplitano is bringing this back to Washington DC.

If New York was to get the COPS funding. There will have to be some sort of deal that would benefit the government.

Here's the break down if we were to get the COPS funding:

$650 million (COPS) + $35 million (DHS) + $7 million (Unknown Funding) = $692 million

[NYJets44288]

What is that $650 million?

[NYPD13]

What is that $650 million?

This is from that link above.

DHS Secretary Presents City With New Funding Package

The federal Department of Homeland Security secretary is in the city today discussing counterterrorism efforts and announcing a new funding package that will help pay for more police officers for the city's transit system.

The announcement comes one day after the city learned it would not be getting an estimated $650 million in federal COPS funding.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says the $35 million grant comes from the Transit Security program. It would put more than 100 additional officers on city subways and buses.

Speaking at The Council On Foreign Relations on the Upper East Side this morning, Napolitano said the Department of Homeland Security is focused on fighting terrorism in a digital age. She highlighted the Mumbai terrorist attacks and how the organizers used GPS and other electronic devices to carry out the bombings.

Napolitano also said the agency is working to refocus counterterrorism efforts in order to make it a shared operation across federal and local agencies.

"The challenge is not just using federal power to protect the country, but also enlisting a broader societal response to the threat that terrorism poses," she said.

The secretary also visited the World Trade Center site and spoke to various law enforcement and city officials at the Staten Island ferry terminal in Lower Manhattan.

During that meeting, she stressed the importance of shared funding and communication.

"It is so important that we have a close connection with local and state law enforcement departments," said Napolitano. "They are really the first eyes on the ground. They are really the ones that see something abnormal, that notice different patterns and we think we can we help them with different analytic capacity, increased access to federal databases."

Later in the day, Napolitano presented the city with the transit security funding package at Grand Central Terminal.

According to law enforcement officials, the funding will allow the New York City Police Department to replace officers currently working as transit cops with new officers funded by the program and move the previous officers into other operations throughout the department.

Senator Charles Schumer says the new money comes with fewer strings attached than the COPS program, which the city was shut out of.

"Under the COPS program, the most the city could get was 50 police officers. This is 120," Schumer said. "That doesn't justify them zeroing us out on the COPS money, but it does mean that New York is going to do better than the other cities that got the COPS money. And we're going to keep on them, fighting both for money for COPS and for more money from the Department of Homeland Security."

Yet, not everyone was satisfied with the new funding.

"They've since given us 120 new transit officers, and we appreciate that," said City Councilman Peter Vallone, who chairs the city public safety committee. "But we need boots above the ground, too. The way they gave a balanced budget, the way the city balanced the budget, is by eliminating the whole police class of 2010. The federal government cannot allow that to happen. [Janet Napolitano] said she would take that concern back to Washington."

Federal officials said the city was denied funding from the COPS program because of its relatively low crime rate.
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Thanks Bloomberg!!!

[PDJoe]

maybe my chances of gettin transit went up!