New York City passed its budget this week, as it does every June 30. This year was rather different than most, though. It was the first budget in more than a decade that decreased spending from the previous year, due to the massive contraction of our economy from the coronavirus pandemic. It’s also the first city budget to occur in this new era of widespread anti-police sentiment. These factors have created a very strange budget that seems to me the most opaque in several years. The NYPD’s budget was cut for the first time in a very …