Sergeants Benevolent Association of the NYPD

SERGEANTS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION

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SERGEANTS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION

THE TOUGHEST JOB IN THE WORLD!

SERGEANTS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION

THE TOUGHEST JOB IN THE WORLD!

SBA President Vincent Vallelong on Fox News

SBA President Vincent Vallelong discusses pay disparity issue on Fox News.

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Protesta pública de agentes contra el alcalde Eric Adams

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NYC Mayor Eric Adams delivers his State of the City address for 2025. Here’s what he focused on.

New York Post: Over 200 NYPD sergeants demand ‘fare pay’ as contract dispute rages

Over 200 NYPD sergeants demand ‘fare pay’ as contract dispute rages

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Adams gives State of the City amid protests from multiple groups, including NYPD sergeants

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NYPD sgts. union to protest over pay woe at Eric speech

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Article on SBA Pay Disparity in NY Daily News | January 7, 2025

Article on SBA Pay Disparity in NY Daily News

New York Daily News

NYPD sergeants union to protest over contract that pays them less than officers

By Thomas Tracy

Hundreds of NYPD sergeants are expected to protest outside Mayor Adams’ upcoming “State of the City” address over a bizarre contract impasse that’s left some sergeants with less pay than the police officers they supervise, union officials said Tuesday.


The off-duty sergeants, as well as their supporters in the City Council, will converge on the Apollo Theater in Harlem on Thursday, where Mayor Adams will discuss last year’s successes — which includes a 5% reduction in crime — and outline his plans for the next year.
Thursday’s rally will be the first time police officers have publicly protested against Adams, a retired NYPD captain.


“This union has handled itself in a professional manner in trying to negotiate fairly,” Sergeants Benevolent Association President Vincent Vallelong told the Daily News Tuesday. “We’ve tried to do it behind closed doors, but all we’re getting is lip service. The mayor has let this fall on deaf ears, so if we’re not on the top of his list, we want him to know that he’s on the top of our list.”




Sgt. Christopher Leap, one of two NYPD supervisors shot and wounded by an armed gang member suspected of robbing a Lower East Side mah-jongg parlor will be among the speakers railing against the mayor on Thursday.
The city’s sergeants haven’t had a contract in two years because of an ongoing wage disparity affecting more than 1,200 supervisors that began when the city increased the salaries of rank-and-file police officers.



After the city boosted salaries of long-serving cops, the SBA union realized that many sergeants are now earning less than the officers they oversee — a situation that makes no sense, Vallelong said.
As contract negotiations drag on, the city’s Office of Labor Relations has asked the union to agree to givebacks to fix a problem they created, he said.


With ongoing discussions bearing no fruit, Vallelong filed a “declaration of impasse” and called in a state mediator to help in October, but still nothing has been agreed to.
The impasse comes as the Adams administration repeatedly boasts it has successfully negotiated contracts “with unions representing nearly 97% of the city’s workforce.”

Over the past year, the city has negotiated contracts with the Police Benevolent Association, United Federation of Teachers, United Probation Officers Association and Uniformed Sanitation Workers’ Union, to name a few.


A spokeswoman for Mayor Adams said City Hall is “currently going through the mediation process with the Sergeants Benevolent Association and are committed to coming to a fair solution that will continue to protect public safety.

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Under the expired contract, the base pay for sergeants, who supervise several cops at a time while responding to 911 calls, starts at $98,000 a year and balloons to about $118,000 within five years.

After the newest contract with the PBA, experienced police officers can earn about $115,000, SBA members said.
The city put itself in a bind by increasing rank-and-file police officer wages without providing comparable increases to supervisory ranks, Vallelong said.



“Now you have new sergeants making less than top-pay police officers,” the union president said. “The OLR didn’t realize your salary can’t be less than what it was before you get promoted. There’s no other rank on the job this has happened to.”


A city official with knowledge of the contract negotiations said that the SBA has been offered wage increases of 18.5% over a five-year term like other uniform services.
By honing in on the wage disparity, the union is “depriving their members of the uniform coalition wage increases,” the official said.


Police officers become sergeants after studying and taking a civil service exam, so a great deal of work and effort goes into becoming a sergeant — something the rank and file may not want to do if they know they can get the same salary as a cop if they work long enough, Vallelong said.
The city is spending millions to level the playing field by promoting sergeants to the highest pay level, Vallelong said.

During contract negotiations, the SBA provided several possible fixes, including a more equitable pay scale program, but the city didn’t want to hear any of them, Vallelong said.


“We laid out the perfect plan to fix it and either they didn’t comprehend or they didn’t like the fact we did it for them,” Vallelong said about OLR.
“You would think that the mayor being a former cop — and knowing about this injustice — the smart decision is to fix it,” he said.

“That’s what leaders do. They see a problem and then they fix the problem and move on.”
If a contract isn’t negotiated, things will get worse before they get better — by July, 1,100 sergeants will have vested their pensions and would be free to retire, Vallelong said.
There are currently 4,300 sergeants in the NYPD, which has about 36,000 members.
“You don’t think that 70% of them are going to retire?” Vallelong asked, adding that 71 sergeants have already put in their papers this month alone. “That’s going to be a significant hit to the department.”

Update on Contract Negotiations

Sanitation head Jessica Tisch appointed next NYPD commissioner

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Sanitation head Jessica Tisch appointed next NYPD commissioner

By Spectrum News Staff and Ayana Harry New York City
UPDATED 6:30 PM ET Nov. 20, 2024 PUBLISHED 12:40 PM ET Nov. 20, 2024

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November 20, 2024

Mayor Eric Adams has appointed Department of Sanitation Commissioner Jessica Tisch the next leader of the NYPD.

Tisch will become the second woman police commissioner in the NYPD’s 179-year history when she officially steps into the role on Monday.

Thomas Donlon has been serving as interim NYPD commissioner since his predecessor, Edward Caban, resigned in September. Tisch is the fourth person to lead the department for Adams since he took office less than three years ago.

“Commissioner Tisch is a 12-year veteran of the NYPD, and a 17-year veteran of city government who has dedicated her professional life to serving the people of New York City,” Adams said at a news conference Wednesday.

“I need someone that’s going to take the police department into the next century,” he added. “I need a visionary. I need a person that can look at how we do everyday operations, and do what she has done over at the Department of Sanitation and the other fields that she has provided the city government.”

Tisch started her career at the NYPD as a counterterrorism analyst before rising to the rank of deputy commissioner of information technology, overseeing the agency’s 911 operations, Adams said.

“She spearheaded efforts to use technology to transform the NYPD’s fundamental business processes, manage the implementation of the NYPD’s body-worn cameras, and drove additional efforts to improve transparency and public access to the NYPD by modernizing CompStat,” he said. “Much of the technology you see now in the New York City Police Department started under Commissioner Tisch, and we want to continue to see that grow.”

Before Adams named her sanitation commissioner in April 2022, Tisch served as commissioner of the city’s Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications, now known as the Office of Technology and Innovation.

Over the last two years, Tisch has cleaned up the streets of all five boroughs, spearheading an effort to move trash off sidewalks and into garbage cans. She has also worked collaboratively with council members.

“As the chair of the sanitation committee, she has done an exception job through oversight. always gave us the questions and answers we needed,” Democrat Councilmember Shaun Abreu, who represents parts of Manhattan, said.

The Department of Sanitation’s current first deputy commissioner, Javier Lojan, will become acting sanitation commissioner effective Monday, the agency said.

At Wednesday’s news conference, Tisch thanked Adams for appointing her before directing remarks toward members of the NYPD.

“I want you to know that I believe very deeply in the nobility of the police and the profession of policing,” she said.

“In my dozen years at the department, I had the opportunity to work with some of the most extraordinary public servants, people who run toward the danger when everyone else runs away,” she added. “It is now my privilege to lead you, and I’m looking forward to coming home.”

In a statement released after Adams’ announcement, Police Benevolent Association president Patrick Hendry, whose union represents thousands of active and retired NYPD officers, said he hoped to work with Tisch to address “challenges” faced by members of the agency.

“Through the numerous recent changes in the NYPD’s leadership, the challenges confronting police officers on the street have remained the same. We are critically understaffed, massively overworked and completely unsupported by a justice system and an oversight regime that care more about punishing cops than helping us get dangerous criminals off the streets,” Hendry said. “We hope to partner with Commissioner Tisch to make real progress on these issues as quickly as possible. The future of the NYPD and the entire city depends on it.”

In his own statement, Detectives’ Endowment Association president Scott Munro said members of his union, which serves around 20,000 active and retired NYPD detectives, were “elated by this choice.”

“We know we will work well with her,” Munro said. “She understands the NYPD. We can count on her.”

The head of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, which represents around 13,000 active and retired NYPD sergeants, also responded to the news Wednesday.

“The SBA congratulates Commissioner Tisch on her appointment and we look forward to working with her on many important critical issues impacting NYPD Sergeants and in particular, finally fixing the ongoing wage disparity within our rank that has left over 1,200 of our Sergeants earning far less than the police officers they supervise,” SBA president Vincent Vallelong said.

Several council members told NY1 they’re optimistic about the new commissioner’s leadership.

“There’s only one priority for the NYPD. It’s keeping the public safe. I mean, everything else is just noise,” Republican Councilmember Joe Borelli, who represents parts of Staten Island, said. “So, as long as the department stays focused on that mission and that mission alone, I think the new commissioner will be very successful.”

“She is brilliant and what she does is look at the problem and find a solution,” Democrat Councilmember Gale Brewer, who represents parts of Manhattan, said.