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De Blasio’s $1B NYPD cut left 2,500 homeless complaints unanswered

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Homeless people living on the streets of New York City are being left out in the cold — and out of control — due to Mayor Bill de Blasio’s decision to cut $1 billion from the NYPD’s budget, The New York Post has learned.

Nearly 2,500 complaints to 311 about vagrants desperately needing help or causing problems have been closed without any action by cops who no longer have jurisdiction, according to official data obtained by The Post.

Before de Blasio stripped the NYPD of $4.5 million a year for its Homeless Outreach Unit, the monthly number of those cases was just 79 in June, the statistics show.

But following the budgetary move — prompted by protesters who camped out in Lower Manhattan to demand that Hizzoner “defund the police” — it.

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