Shift of state police from Yonkers Raceway under fire
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- January
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Q.Who can argue with a plan to put more state police in high-crime areas around the state?
A. Elected officials representing areas in and around schools and “racinos” whose state police presence would be eliminated to provide more cops to 17 crime-troubled counties outside of New York City.
Two state Legislators whose districts include Empire City at Yonkers Raceway are criticizing Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s plan to redeploy nearly 200 state police. Assemblyman Mike Spano (D-Yonkers) held a press conference today saying that he has contacted the governor several times since May when he first learned of the plan – most recently in a letter sent today. State Sen. Jeffrey Klein (D-Bronx) has sent a letter asking N.Y. State Police Acting Superintendent Preston Felton to reconsider the shift. Both legislators argue that Empire City, with millions gambled daily, needs a state police presence.
The police would be shifted to the state police’s Operation Impact. The plan is contained in Spitzer’s proposed budget.
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Maybe Yonkers should hire Nick Spano to lobby for them on this issue, he will get it done. Cousins ain’t going to get it done.
Maybe Empire State should hire security guards on their own dime, not on ours. If they’re taking in millions per day, they should be able to afford it.
The residents of Westchester should re-hire Nick Spano in November.
Cousins has done zero for her people. She promised so much. I laughed when she proposed “Midnight Basketball” for the youth at risk. The punchline is that she cannot deliver something so simple. Not one new program!
Honestly, it isn’t even funny. It is sad.
If we need more cops, hire them. Cut some of the myriad useless programs
Scuse me…most of the money goes to the state,
allegedly for “education.”
Because the state gets a huge cut, state cops should
be assigned there.
Thanks for writing.
We’ll have a little more information on this in Friday’s paper and I hope to get a little deeper into this issue in the next few days.
“We’ll have a little more information on this in Friday’s paper and I hope to get a little deeper into this issue in the next few days.”
Just ask Dumb and dumber…they are both reeeeeal deep.