PBA’S REACTION TO BUDGET PLAN
PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said: “What would truly
be devastating to this city’s economy would be to continue
to ignore the staffing crisis in the NYPD, to ignore the fact
that crime is on the rise and that the city’s fiscal
health depends first and foremost on people feeling safe on
our streets. Ignoring these facts while the city has
the largest surplus in its history would truly be criminal. Trying
to fix tomorrow’s problems and ignoring today’s
is fiscally irresponsible and unconscionable.”
