Feliz and Tisch discuss headcount increase vs. overtime reduction
Feliz asks whether increasing headcount could decrease overtime. Tisch says it would help for special events like this summer but wouldn't make a dent in other overtime categories, and notes the mayor added 580 additional officers in his first month.
But the big question or the big point here is whether there's any measures that we can take so that we could have that police presence, let's say, for example, by increasing headcount and not have to continuously rely on a billion dollars of overtime.
I do not believe having more officers this summer would definitely
decrease the overtime, the need for overtime this summer for all of these special events, and in my opinion, could have an overall general effect on overtime.
But those are budget decisions that the council needs to make in coordination with the mayor and his team.
I am doing the best I can with the officers that we have, and I am very pleased that so far this year in his first month,
the mayor has given us over 500 additional officers budgeted for the New York City Police Department, 580.