Mayoral hopeful Scott Stringer is spelling out his plan to recruit and retain cops among the many depleted ranks of the NYPD — by proposing decreased hours and on-site daycare for working dad and mom.
“Improving public safety requires ensuring our city has enough officers on the beat, and the truth is, it’s not just budgetary restrictions preventing us from having the amount of officers we need; it’s a recruitment and retention crisis,” Stringer stated.
“I am the only candidate with the patience and skills to implement a recruitment and retention plan to ensure we have a truly world-class force to keep New York City safe.”
Over the past six years, the NYPD has misplaced roughly 3,000 officers, with its headcount dwindling down to only underneath 33,500 cops — as officers battle plunging morale, an awesome quantity of compelled time beyond regulation, and awful pay in comparison with surrounding counties.
Nevertheless, the previous comptroller, whose marketing campaign remains to be seeking to minimize by means of the crowded subject of challengers, says his “comprehensive, multifaceted approach” will crack the case.
The plan hinges upon a large recruitment marketing campaign — which Stringer says will likely be a mixture of grassroots outreach and promoting — pitching potential hires on the NYPD being the highest place to police.
To enhance morale and assist with the challenges of elevating a household as a cop, Stringer needs to create on-site daycare packages to retain the feminine members of the drive, who make up simply over a fifth of the workforce.
He’s additionally proposing reducing necessary time beyond regulation, staggering work schedules, making assignments months forward of time and increasing the four-day workweek throughout the division, which was piloted underneath Mayor Eric Adams’ administration.
Almost all of the candidates within the Democratic main to unseat incumbent Mayor Adams have vowed so as to add cops and tackle crime — a change in tune for practically all of the mayoral hopefuls, together with Stringer, who pushed to scale back NYPD headcount.
Present frontrunner and former governor Andrew Cuomo — who nabbed 38% of assist within the newest ballot the place Stringer garnered simply 5% — has additionally proposed including hundreds of cops.
