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Police staffing, overtime cuts and big technology purchase draw scrutiny during budget review
Summary
Schenectady Police leaders warned council members that a reduced overtime line and a large one‑time technology purchase could squeeze frontline capacity, even as the department points to falling crime trends and investments in devices and cameras.
Police leaders summarized staffing and operations data to the finance committee and urged caution before making deep cuts to the overtime budget. The chief said the department is seeing lower crime compared with last year but cautioned the declines are cyclical and that regional factors affect local workload.
On staffing and overtime, the chief told the committee: “We operate in a manner where we strive to stay within the budget,” and warned that narrowing the overtime line could require the department to “make hard decisions” about which incidents get…
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