According to emails obtained by Gothamist, an unknown number of NYPD officers were warned that if they didn’t get vaccinated within 10 days they would be fired — although some have found ways to buy more time.
But the fate of all those exemption requests and the officers who filed them has been shrouded in secrecy. Since these latest notices were sent out, the administration under Mayor Eric Adams has not responded to repeated requests for information about how many exemption requests have been approved or denied so far or how many officers received determinations in this cohort. The mayor’s office also did not provide a current breakdown of vaccination rates by agency, as it had done in the past.
The initial notices sent out April 12 from the Department of Citywide Administrative Services said officers had seven days to show proof of vaccination or they would be placed on unpaid leave. Subsequent notices sent out by the Mayor’s Executive Order Leave Desk informed officers they had until Friday to get vaccinated or they would be fired.
“This is a situation where I have to disregard my beliefs in order to get a paycheck, and it doesn’t sit well with me,” the detective said last week, before he made the decision. “I’m not into the whole conspiracy thing,” he said, referring to some unfounded theories that have circulated about the dangers of the vaccines.
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