RECENT NEWS FOR THOSE OF US MONITORING RIOTS, PROTESTS, ESCALATING CRIME, ETC. & WHO HAVE FRIENDS AND FAMILY LIVING & WORKING IN NYC

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THE NY POST HEADLINE--THE THANKS THEY GET. POLS ATTACK NYPD, SLASH BUDGET AFTER DECADES OF CRIME REDUCTION--he New York City Council passed the city’s $88.1 billion budget just after midnight Wednesday with hopes to solve the Big Apple’s $9 billion budget shortfall — in part by slashing NYPD spending by $1 billion.......The substantial cuts to the NYPD came in response to demonstrations seeking to defund the department in the wake of George Floyd’s death at the hands of police in Minneapolis. READ MORE HERE.

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VIDEO CAPTURES LATEST UNPROVOKED SIDEWALK ATTACK; more here

and 11 people shot across NYC in less than 12 hours as shootings spike; more here

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AND MEANWHILE IN MINNEAPOLIS...one of our readers has family in that beleaguered city; more from the good enough for me but not for thee chronicles--Minneapolis council members who voted to abolish cops get private tax payer funded security; read more here