The de Blasio administration is planning to spend $10.4 million to outfit all NYPD patrol cars with bullet-resistant window inserts, according to City Hall officials.
The plan is expected to be announced Tuesday when Mayor de Blasio unveils an $84.7 billion preliminary fiscal 2018 budget — up 3.1 percent from last year’s $82.1 billion preliminary plan.
The NYPD began piloting the inserts in 2016, which protect the back portion of the driver and passenger-side windows but don’t allow the window to be rolled down.
The move followed the killing of two NYPD officers in their patrol vehicle in Brooklyn in late 2014 and the murder of officer Brian Moore in Queens while he rode in an unmarked patrol car.
In July, city officials announced they were allocating $6.8 million to outfit the NYPD’s 3,813 patrol cars with bullet-resistant panels that protect the doors but said they weren’t ready to sign off on the window inserts at the time.
Now they say they’re moving forward using asset forfeiture funds to cover the costs of putting the window panels in every vehicle, with half the money allocated in the current fiscal year and the remainder in fiscal 2018.
“This is about having the backs of our men and women in blue who, with courage and commitment, don the uniform every day to protect and serve,” said City Hall spokesman Austin Finan. “This investment is our commitment to ensuring the safety of those officers on the beat.”
At a New York Building Congress luncheon in midtown Monday, de Blasio also revealed elements of the city’s upcoming capital budget proposal.
He said it would include funding for an additional 1,300 miles of streets to be repaved in the coming fiscal year and a multi-year earmark to create 40,000 new public school seats.
http://nypost.com/2017/01/23/nypd-to-install-bulletproof-windows-in-all-patrol-cars/
LOL.. i cant say what i want to say.. but lets just say it has to do with patience , and just waiting ..soon enough they will get out , because in order for them to beat someone , or kill their dog.. or rough up an 80 year old woman or rape yer daughter, and strangle the guy on the corner selling loose cigarettes .. they will have to exit the vehicle
how bout quit going around pissing off the people you have to deal with on a daily basis , or is that too hard to understand? oh yeah i forgot.. all those killed over in other lands for the advancement of a few rich a55holes , using you to further agenda not giving 2 schitts if you do get to go home to your miserable family or not,… check!
so yer a useful idiot .. got it , check
thug for the military , so used by the oligarchs as they become billionares and you and your kids live in schitt , poor , and subjugated daily ..uhuh got it , check…fuggen dopes wake the hell up.. yer not serving We the People with anything of “Nobility” or “profession” .. yer a paid thug for the elite and too dam stupid to know it.. yeh , they dont care if you get to go home to yer family ,, they jut care if they just racked in another million while you suffer and became a target, because of your own actions
hey , cant fix stupid .. but there are ways in this world that some eliminate stupid in other ways , sure cant seem worth it , but at lower than an 80 IQ im not surprised they think like they do
“…soon enough they will get out ,..”
LOL… my very first thought upon reading the title.
Conversely, they can’t shoot out through those windows, either. Gets mighty toasty in those vehicles with a couple cocktails lighting them up.