Mamdani Testing Relationship With NYPD As Overtime Is Cut

New York City is bracing for severe winter weather, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani is having a similar chilling effect on the NYPD.

That “warmth of collectivism” clearly hasn’t kicked in yet, and now the NYPD is being told to cut all overtime hours – right before this winter storm that will surely make a mess out of the Big Apple.

Officers have been told they need to reduce their extra time by nine to 11 hours next month as part of a cost-cutting initiative, multiple sources said Friday.

It wasn’t immediately clear if the department planned to keep those caps in place after the shortest month of the year or if further cuts were in the works.

Insiders said the order didn’t come down from City Hall and chalked it up to a short month with few big-ticket events.

“This is management 101 — of course, the NYPD would cut back on overtime spending during the shortest and coldest month of the year when there are the fewest number of large-scale events that typically require the use of overtime,” said the NYPD’s top spokesperson, Delaney Kempner.

“There will be plenty of overtime opportunities when events pick back up during the warmer months,” she added.

So… if the weather gets bad, and cops can’t make it to their precinct stations, will the ones who are still on duty be able to get overtime? Or will the NYPD just play shorthanded if the weather wreaks havoc on staffing? Considering Mamdani already had a pretty tense relationship over his “defund the police” past comments, and his campaign promise to cut the NYPD’s overtime budget, it seems the rank-and-file don’t believe that overtime is going to be making a comeback – and they are blaming the mayor, no matter what NYPD leadership claims.