NYPD Ordered To Cut Overtime To Cover Costs Of Illegal Immigration Crisis

New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) is reportedly planning to issue a directive ordering the New York Police Department (NYPD) to cut overtime spending in order to help cover costs related to the illegal immigration crisis the city is currently facing — as reports indicate it could cost the city up to $12 billion to care for illegal aliens over the next three years.

Jacques Jiha, Adams’ budget director, issued a memo on Saturday to the NYPD, the New York Fire Department (FDNY), the Department of Correction (DOC) and the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) — which states that each agency is expected to slash overtime spending.

“The mayor will… issue a directive to implement an overtime reduction initiative for our city’s four uniformed agencies (NYPD, FDNY, DOC/DSNY),” Jiha reportedly wrote in the memo. “These agencies must submit a plan to reduce year-to-year OT spending.”

The memo also allegedly demanded that the departments submit monthly budget reports to City Hall that “track overtime spending and their progress in meeting the reduction target.”

Patrick Hendry — the head of the Police Benevolent Association, which is New York City’s largest police union — has spoken out about the decision, noting that slashing overtime will be a difficult task for the NYPD.

“It is going to be impossible for the NYPD to significantly reduce overtime unless it fixes its staffing crisis,” Hendry explained in a statement. “We are still thousands of cops short, and we’re struggling to drive crime back to pre-2020 levels without adequate personnel.”

“If City Hall wants to save money without jeopardizing public safety, it needs to invest in keeping experienced cops on the job,” he wrote.

The NYPD spent a staggering $700 million on overtime in 2022 alone.

Alongside cutting overtime budgets, Adams also plans to enforce a hiring freeze as part of his effort to cut spending to offset the cost incurred by the rise of illegal aliens entering New York City. However, the hiring freeze will not apply to public health and safety positions or “revenue producers,” according to the New York Post. The outlet also noted that the city does not plan to implement layoffs to cut costs at this time, though they will be banning new equipment purchases and future consulting contracts, and implementing restrictions on out-of-town travel.

The memo does include some spending cuts that will impact services for illegal aliens.

“We are also reducing services being provided to asylum seekers and closely monitoring these services to ensure they are being delivered in the cost efficient and cost effective manner possible,” Jiah wrote in the memo. “The city is experiencing a humanitarian crisis we did not cause.”

Last week, Adams finally admitted that the influx of illegal aliens “will destroy New York City.”

“We have a $12 billion deficit that we’re going to have to cut. Every service in this city is going to be impacted, all of us,” the Democrat mayor said on Wednesday. “I said it last year when we had 15,000, and I’m telling you now with 110,000. The city we knew, we’re about to lose, and we are all in this together, all of us.”