#De Blasio wants cops to stay in schools even though NYPD willing to leave
“#De Blasio wants cops to stay in schools even though NYPD willing to leave”
June 19, 2020 | 5:44pm
“I appreciate that there are some who think school safety should be taken out of NYPD. I don’t think they’re right,” de Blasio said at his daily City Hall press briefing Friday.
“My first impulse is that school safety actually has consistently made our schools safer,” de Blasio said, referring to the NYPD’s School Safety Division.
“They’ve taken a lot of weapons out of our schools. They’ve reduced crime and violence steadily over the years,” he said.
On Tuesday, Police Commissioner Dermot Shea signaled that he’s open to the department ending its role in school safety enforcement.
“I think everyone has to cut,” Shea told The Associated Press when asked about calls for belt-tightening, first necessitated by the coronavirus pandemic, then exacerbated by a wave of police reform since the police-custody killing of George Floyd.
Among the tough cuts Shea told the AP he was willing to make was pulling up the NYPD’s stakes in city schools and traffic enforcement, which together account for about $500 million of the department’s nearly $6 billion budget.
De Blasio said he’s discussed his difference of opinion with Shea.
“I’ve talked to the commissioner about it. He understands and to his great credit that in a democracy that decisions are made by the civilians and the fact is there’s a conversation going on right now,” the mayor said.
City Council Education Committee Chair Mark Treyger (D-Brooklyn) and Public Safety Committee Chair Donovan Richards (D-Queens) want the city’s 5,000 school safety agents to report to the Dept. of Education instead of the NYPD.
De Blasio said he’s open to talking about a change.
“What do the parents of New York City want and need here? And how do we do things in a way that’s all about reform and transformation? It’s a conversation we’re absolutely going to have with the City Council,” he said.
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