Los Angeles proposes slashing law enforcement budget, including elimination of Special Victims Bureau

Fox News ^ | 06.30.2020 | Hollie McKay

[USA Conservative]

s governments nationwide move forward with plans to shift funds away from law enforcement in the aftermath of George Floyd's police-involved death last month, Los Angeles CEO Sachi Hamai has put forward a proposed budget with recommendations to cut some $145.4 million allocated to local police. The bid, which would entail eliminating six units from the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, earned a sharp rebuke from County Sheriff Alex Villanueva over the weekend. The budget cuts are targeted specifically to hurt public safety while sparing virtually every other function of county government from any reductions," Villanueva stated. "These cuts come at a time when jails were de-populated of over five thousand inmates in order to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Now that restrictions are lifting, violent crimes, such as murder, are on the rise across the County. Now is not the time to cut vital law enforcement services, that should be the last thing cut."

The CEO's proposed budget, as per the LASD, recommends the following LASD units be eliminated:

• Safe Streets Bureau (Gang Enforcement)

• Parks Bureau

• Special Victims Bureau (Sexual/Physical Abuse of Children, Rape, Human Trafficking)

• Community Partnership Bureau (COPS Team)

• Fraud and Cybercrimes Bureau

• Major Crimes Bureau

According to Villanueva, the CEO also advocates for drastically reducing Custody Operations (various units) and Mental Health Evaluation Teams (MET) – accusing the leadership of merely seeking to cover up their own financial planning errors.

The CEO and the Board have embraced the 'Defund the Police' movement and are cynically hiding behind accounting maneuvers, knowing well that loss of revenue in sales tax can be made up by equitably distributing more stable revenue streams like property taxes. This is not acceptable and a willful abandonment of one of the top priorities of all local government, keeping

[oldvirginian]

Don’t give’em any ideas.
They’re crazy enough on their own.

[lowbridge]

I imagine syndicated reruns of highway patrol, chips, adam-12, dragnet, police woman, kojak, baretta, starsky and hutch, etc, are next to be removed from the airwaves.

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

Communists? Sure, but is that all? Doesn’t defunding the gangs unit and the major crimes unit raise a question of whether they are paid off by the cartels?

[Vaduz]

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[mass55th]

I never watched Law & Order SVU. I used to watch Blue Bloods because I like Tom Selleck, but even that show started airing episodes that covered recent public events. I didn’t need to see the news repeated in the TV shows I watched, so I stopped viewing it about 2 years ago. There are very few drama series I watch on the major networks: SEAL Team; Prodigal Son, because I like Lou Diamond Phillip, Agents of SHIELD, Evil because I like Mike Coulter who played Luke Cage in the Netflix series, and Michael Emerson who I first watched on Person of Interest with James Caviezel.