纽约市长说要把警方资金削减10亿美金

A week after a “defund the police” protest became a full-blown occupation outside City Hall, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday he has a plan for the New York City police department budget to be slashed by $1 billion.

“削减警方预算”的抗议活动演变成了对市政厅外的全面占领。一周后，纽约市长白思豪于周一宣布计划将纽约市警方的预算削减10亿美元。

The mayor, a Democrat, declined to discuss the sources of what he called “savings” for the nation’s largest police department, saying at a news briefing that the cuts are still being negotiated with the City Council. But he said spending on capital projects would be reduced by $500 million and there could be changes to the department’s role in policing schools.

这位市长是民主党人，他拒绝透露从美国最大的警察局“省下的钱”的来源。他在新闻发布会上说还在与市议会商议削减预算的事宜。但他说基建项目支出会减少5亿美元，警方在警校的作用也会发生变化。

Money would be deferred to the city's chronically underfunded public housing system and to youth programs, de Blasio said.

白思豪说，钱会拨给纽约长期资金供应不足的公共住房系统和青年项目。

“The NYPD did a hell a good job in saying, ’Ok, here’s a bunch of things we could do while still keeping this city safe,” he said. “We need to redistribute revenue to communities that need it the most. We know our young people are hurting.”

他说：“纽约警察局这句话说得很好‘好吧，我们在保证这个城市安全的同时，还有很多事情可以做。’我们需要重新将收入分配给那些最有需要的团体。我们知道我们的年轻人现在很需要钱。”

The budget talks come as hundreds of demonstrators have spent the past week camped out in City Hall Park and demanding police defunding following weeks of protests over the death of George Floyd and other Black Americans killed by law enforcement.

执法部门所造成的乔治·弗洛伊德和其他美国黑人的死亡事件引发了抗议，抗议持续数周之后，数百名示威者在过去一周驻扎在市政厅公园，要求削减警方预算，因此市长发布了这一调整预算的消息。

Organizers have called it “Occupy City Hall” — a nod to the 2011 Occupy Wall Street movement a few blocks away in Zuccotti Park.

组织者称这一活动为“占领市政厅”，仿照的是2011年“占领华尔街”的运动，当时人们是在几条街外的祖科蒂公园。

The group directed its demands — scrawled on colorful placards, a canvass of graffiti and a massive poster taped over a subway entrance — at de Blasio and Council Speaker Corey Johnson.

示威团体对白思豪和议会议长Corey Johnson提出的要求潦草地写在五颜六色的标语牌、涂鸦画布和贴在地铁入口的巨大海报上。

“We’ve done different levels of escalation to make sure we’re getting their attention,” said Jonathan Lykes, one of the movement’s organizers. “If they defund the police by $1 billion then we have won — but that’s only our demand this week.”

作为运动组织者之一的Jonathan Lykes说：“我们的抗议活动进行了几次升级，以确保能得到他们的关注。如果警方的预算削减10亿美元，我们就胜利了。但这也只是我们本周的要求。”