By Heather Grossmann
DNAinfo News Editor
MANHATTAN — The number of police on the streets will drop to 1990 levels — when there were over 2,200 murders in New York City — if Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s proposed budget cuts go through, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly testified at a City Council hearing Thursday.
The NYPD would lose 892 positions under the mayor’s proposal, and if Gov. David Paterson’s controversial budget passes, the cuts would be much worse. The agency would have to cut 3.6 percent of its staff across the board.
Kelly said the NYPD would continue to do more with less if the cuts go through.
The proposed budget would bring the number of men in blue down to a two-decade low of 32,817.
