Mayor to make streets safer

Yesterday's announcement that the city plans on hiring a bunch more cops should make the all us feel a lot safer.

Which is good news because the number of officers on the street has fallen since Bloomberg took control.

The Post reports:

The hiring spree comes after years of downsizing, as Bloomberg confronted the city's worst fiscal crisis since the 1970s. During his tenure, the number of uniformed cops was cut from a peak of about 40,700 in 2001 to roughly 37,000 today.

But by my calculations, we will still be short about 800 officers from 2001 levels.

It's a start, though.