Tell Mamdani to Reverse His NYPD Cuts and Hire the Additional Police Officers
Tell Mamdani to Reverse His NYPD Cuts and Hire the Additional Police Officers
The Issue
On Saturday morning, April 11, 2026, a man wielding a machete slashed and injured three people at New York City's Grand Central subway station before being fatally shot by police.The victims were an 84-year-old man, a 70-year-old woman, and a 65-year-old man.
This wasn't a back alley at 3 a.m. This was Grand Central Terminal, one of the most iconic, most visited public spaces in the world, on a Saturday morning. Locals enjoying their weekend were thrust into danger and chaos. Tourists visiting the city got a very different, but increasingly normal, kind of New York experience.
Stories like attack are becoming the new normal. And now Mayor Mamdani wants to make it worse.
Mayor Mamdani has proposed cutting $22 million from the NYPD budget and canceled the phased hiring of 5,000 new police officers that the Adams administration had secured funding for in October 2025.
The NYPD already has a budgeted headcount of 35,000 positions but currently has about 34,000 officers, with an attrition rate of 250 to 300 officers a month. Let that sink in. The city is already losing cops faster than it can replace them and the mayor's answer is to cancel the only plan that would have reversed that trend.
This is not a budget line item. This is someone's grandfather with cuts to his head and face. This is someone's mother with a shoulder wound. This is a 65-year-old man with a fractured skull.
New York doesn't just belong to the people who live there. It belongs to every American who has ever visited or hopes to.
Republican Councilor Joann Ariola has already said NYPD cuts should be off the table: "There are plenty of agencies where cuts can be made, but the NYPD is not one of them."
We agree — and we're calling on the entire City Council to act.
We call on Mayor Mamdani to immediately reverse the $22 million NYPD budget cuts and restore the plan to hire 5,000 additional police officers. If he refuses, we call on the New York City Council to use its budget authority to block these cuts and protect New Yorkers.
New York can come back. But not like this. Sign if you believe New York deserves to be safe again.
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The Issue
On Saturday morning, April 11, 2026, a man wielding a machete slashed and injured three people at New York City's Grand Central subway station before being fatally shot by police.The victims were an 84-year-old man, a 70-year-old woman, and a 65-year-old man.
This wasn't a back alley at 3 a.m. This was Grand Central Terminal, one of the most iconic, most visited public spaces in the world, on a Saturday morning. Locals enjoying their weekend were thrust into danger and chaos. Tourists visiting the city got a very different, but increasingly normal, kind of New York experience.
Stories like attack are becoming the new normal. And now Mayor Mamdani wants to make it worse.
Mayor Mamdani has proposed cutting $22 million from the NYPD budget and canceled the phased hiring of 5,000 new police officers that the Adams administration had secured funding for in October 2025.
The NYPD already has a budgeted headcount of 35,000 positions but currently has about 34,000 officers, with an attrition rate of 250 to 300 officers a month. Let that sink in. The city is already losing cops faster than it can replace them and the mayor's answer is to cancel the only plan that would have reversed that trend.
This is not a budget line item. This is someone's grandfather with cuts to his head and face. This is someone's mother with a shoulder wound. This is a 65-year-old man with a fractured skull.
New York doesn't just belong to the people who live there. It belongs to every American who has ever visited or hopes to.
Republican Councilor Joann Ariola has already said NYPD cuts should be off the table: "There are plenty of agencies where cuts can be made, but the NYPD is not one of them."
We agree — and we're calling on the entire City Council to act.
We call on Mayor Mamdani to immediately reverse the $22 million NYPD budget cuts and restore the plan to hire 5,000 additional police officers. If he refuses, we call on the New York City Council to use its budget authority to block these cuts and protect New Yorkers.
New York can come back. But not like this. Sign if you believe New York deserves to be safe again.
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Petition created on April 15, 2026