stopping expansion is a very technocratic way of cutting their budget over time because inflation will continue to happen. Remember he needs to not be murdered if he wants to do any of the public transit improvements, rent freezes, or at-cost grocery stores.

this is not a defense of his backpedaling on the nypd or , but also he wasn't ever campaigning on decimating the nypd budget or anything but rather on limiting their scope to the liberal mythology of police are for and using the new funding that isn't going to the cops to fund ostensibly good things like social workers.