Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is now publicly backing Mayor Eric Adams’ push to add 5,000 officers to the NYPD, and he’s using the proposal to sharpen attacks on democratic socialist mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani whose long record of anti-police rhetoric is proving politically toxic.
Cuomo, speaking about the city’s officer shortage, said the hiring spike is needed just to return policing to a functional level.
“We’re losing police officers at one of the highest rates of attrition because they’re so short-staffed, they have to work all the time,” Cuomo said, according to the *New York Post. “Hiring 5,000 police officers will actually give them enough staff where people can work normal shifts.”…