Monday, Mar. 21, 2011
Crime statistics show there is a breaking point, and we're at it. We can't absorb any more public safety cuts.
- PETER VALLONE JR.,
- New York City councilman, after the city's Independent Budget Office projected that by June 2012, the police department will have shrunk to 34,413 uniformed personnel, a record low since 1992, when crime rates were near epic highs