New York, NY – Police Commissioner William Bratton is calling building conditions in many of New York City’s aging precinct stations “deplorable.”
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Bratton made the remark on Friday while testifying at a City Council hearing.
Bratton told council members that many of the police stations in the city’s 76 precincts are in desperate need of plumbing, electrical and other upgrades after “a century of neglect.” He said others lack adequate air conditioning.
But Bratton also said budget constraints will prevent the work from happening anytime soon.
Start making billionaires in luxury housing pay for repairs. NYPD spends more money and manpower protecting prime real estate for these socialites in the city than other boroughs anyway.
Bratton is right, as anyone who has had to enter a police precinct can tell you.
He also needs to dramatically increase NYPD salaries; they are now 20% below those of the New York State Police. Bloomberg really left the city a mess and De Blasio is going to get blamed for the cleanup.
I wonder how many police stations of all sorts the NYPD has. Hundreds, I suppose.