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Shootings are up, police are leaving the NYPD by the busload, morale is lower than it’s been in years. The upheaval around the country has led to call for changes in the way police do their jobs. Rockland and Westchester state senator David Carlucci says calls to defund the police, however, go too far…

Mayor Bill de Blasio and the city council are looking to cut one billion dollars from the NYPD’s annual six billion dollar budget. CBS New York says he’s looking use the money to support youth and community services, the July recruit class will be cancelled, reducing the NYPD headcount by more than one-thousand, and overtime will be capped.

The brand-new, Terminal B Arrivals and Departures Hall at LaGuardia Airport was unveiled yesterdy during the governor’s daily press briefing. It’s part of an on-going $8 billion transformation project, now in the fourth of a five-year plan. Port Authority Executive Director Rick Cotton said though ridership is currently down nearly 97% due to the coronavirus, it will undoubtedly turn around…

The new Terminal B will open on Saturday. The last new airport built in the US was in Denver in 1995.

Food banks across the state are seeing a surge in need. In his daily coronavirus briefing yesterday, New York governor Andrew Cuomo said the state will be giving them $25 million in emergency funding…

Any philanthropies interested in helping the state’s food banks can contact Fran Barrett, the Director of Non-Profits, at the following email address: COVIDPhilanthropies@exec.ny.gov. The state has confirmed around 292,000 total cases of coronavirus across the state and 17,300 deaths. In Rockland, the state says we’ve got over 11,300 reported cases, and the Rockland Health Department confirms 481 deaths here in the county.

The New York State Police Hate Crimes Task Force is looking into two swastikas found carved into a bathroom door at the Nyack Starbucks. In condemning the graffiti, Rockland’s County Executive said the symbols were there for about three weeks, and questioned how no one reported it or realized they were even there. The governor wants those responsible punished to the “fullest extent of the law.”