by Belle Carter, Natural News:

New York City Mayor Eric Adams recently unveiled the city’s updated 2024 financial plan, revealing a slew of budget cuts in several aspects as the Big Apple grapples with its multi-billion-dollar migrant crisis.

The plan included the New York Police Department’s (NYPD’s) reduction of workforce to just 29,000 cops by the end of fiscal year 2025, the lowest level since the mid-90s. It indicated that the next five police academy classes will be axed, which will decimate an already strained department as roughly 4,500 officers are expected to leave their ranks within the next 18 months, the New York Post reported. “The defund the police crowd’s woke dream has come true. We were fed a line of BS that the wave of migrants would be a benefit to the city. Now we are defunding the police to pay for their beds,” the enraged Council Republican Minority Leader Joe Borelli said.