While the demand on HOP that the parade last five hours or less remains the same, no group or person is currently saying that the cost to the city of policing and cleaning up after the parade is the reason for or even part of the motivation for the changes.
Last year’s Pride Parade lasted nine and a half hours. In 2010, Bloomberg administration, NYPD launched effort to keep events to five hours Paul Browne, the NYPD’s chief spokesperson in 2010, told the Wall Street Journal then that the cuts would save the agency $3 million a year in police overtime costs.
