New York City detectives are plagued with low morale, low staffing and a lack of support from leadership 18 months after George Floyd’s death sparked national backlash against police departments, according to a union president who represents over 19,000 active and retired NYPD detectives.
“It’s the first time in history that you had all three entities of government turn their backs on the police — and I mean on a city level, state level and federal level,” Detectives’ Endowment Association President Paul DiGiacomo told Fox News.
In July 2020, Mayor Bill de Blasio and the New York City council voted to cut the city’s police department’s budget by roughly $1 billion amid intense public pressure to defund the police.
