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Budget concerns for NYPD vehicles and precinct facilities

2:31:43

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Council Member Ariola expresses concerns about the lack of vehicles for NYPD precincts and the state of disrepair of precinct facilities. She seeks information on how to help the NYPD acquire more vehicles and improve precinct conditions.

Ariola mentions specific precincts (104, 102, 106, and 100) where efforts are being made to improve conditions
She highlights an issue where providing extra cars to precincts results in losing an equal number of existing cars, resulting in no net gain
The council member emphasizes the need to address these infrastructure issues as part of the budget discussion

Joann Ariola

2:31:43

Exactly.

2:31:44

And oftentimes our budget hearings, especially with the NYPD, become oversight hearings.

2:31:52

And I apologize for that because we do have oversight hearings where all the the information that has been discussed here was not about the budget, but about your your procedures, your policies, and about policing in general.

2:32:07

But you can't ask for drug dealers to be arrested while you're allowing people who are using drugs to not be arrested.

2:32:18

You cannot have two different metrics when both are illegal.

2:32:26

So what I'd like to do is take it back to a budget hearing.

2:32:31

So I am really concerned about the fact that we don't have enough vehicles for our precincts.

2:32:37

And this is something that I'd like to find out how we can help you get more vehicles for your precincts.

2:32:42

We've talked about the the disrepair that the precincts are in.

2:32:46

We've put money in in our budget and we're hoping to get that put forward for a number of our precincts.

2:32:51

I have the 104, 1 0 2, 1 1 0 6, and the 1 Hundredth Precinct, and we're doing our best.

2:32:57

But when we do provide extra cars, if it's four cars, they lose four cars.

2:33:04

Yeah.

2:33:05

So it's not a net gain.

Jessica Tisch

2:33:06

So I agree and acknowledge that the police department has to invest in a very serious way in our RMPs, in our police cars.

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