REMINDER
Giuliani and Bloomberg got rid of street garbage bins to drastically reduce the Sanitation workforce while building up the NYPD.

then, when Bill de Blasio tried to have the NYPD justify their budget ―so he could, instead, allocate more money for sanitation, firefighting, teaching, public clinics― what did the nazi NYBPA pseudo-union do? death threats. to the mayor. their boss. when that became too obvious, they spent 8 years harrassing his wife and children.
https://gothamist.com/news/no-more-trash-piles-city-to-install-garbage-bins-in-hundreds-of-brooklyn-parking-spaces?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub