Democratic County Executive Steve Bellone will announce Monday that he is hiring 705 law enforcement personnel, bucking the "defund the police" movement in his own party, sources said.
| Good for him. And the community, and the community’s police. |
But Suffolk’s gain could be the NYPD’s pain — as scores of Big Apple officers are furious over Mayor Comrade Bill de Blasio
...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him...’s requirement for city workers, including police, to get the vaccine by Monday.
Suffolk County cops are not required to get the shot.
"The [NYPD cops] who don’t want to get vaccinated, they’re going to run to Suffolk County,’’ a longtime city policeman told The Post.
The 20-year NYPD veteran said the fact that Suffolk cops don’t need to get the vaccine is just the cherry on top of reasons to defect to Long Island.
Starting pay for both NYPD and Suffolk cops is currently about $42,000 — but while city cops max out at $86,000 annually, the Long Island officers’ wages nearly double, to $155,600, after 11.5 years of service.
"Suffolk County? That’s the Lotto!’’ the police source said. "Anyone who goes to Suffolk, we say they hit the Lotto.
"If they go to Nassau [County], we call it the ’Scratch-Off,’ " the cop quipped.
"Less work and more money, and you’re more appreciated for doing your job,’’ he said of the Long Island police departments.
The source added that even if there were a vaccine mandate in Suffolk, defecting NYPD cops wouldn’t gripe — because the money eases the pain.
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