NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo spoke at the Mount Neboh Baptist Church in Harlem on Sunday and unveiled his plan to hire 5,000 more NYPD officers if elected New York City mayor, stating that the “city is in crisis” and in need of a public safety-forward administration.
An additional 5,000 officers would jump the NYPD’s ranks 15%, bringing its total size near an all-time high of about 39,000, Cuomo said.
The former governor plans to reverse “years of decline” in the department’s roster and use the additional forces to increase policing around what he called “urban crime zones,” like the Eighth Avenue corridor between Penn Station and Times Square and the Roosevelt Avenue stretch in Queens…