As New York City mayor Eric Adams and the Democratic city council bicker over the forthcoming city budget for fiscal year 2024, due July 1, one progressive talking point — that out-of-control police spending consumes resources needed to fund schools, libraries, and mental-health care — is becoming a cliché.
Just one problem: As a share of the city’s budget, police spending isn’t growing.
In fact, it’s lower than it has been in 40 years.
Police spending isn’t crowding out education and social-services spending. The opposite is true, as my new paper for the Manhattan Institute reveals. If anything, education spending has crowded out police spending.
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Nicole Gelinas is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor at City Journal. Follow her on Twitter here. Adapted from City Journal.
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