THESE PEOPLE ARE INSANE!!!!!!!!.................
Posted on 07/02/2020 6:37:23 AM PDT by Red Badger
LOS ANGELES—City leaders voted Wednesday to slash the Los Angeles Police Department budget by $150 million, reducing the number of officers to a level not seen for more than a decade amid nationwide demands to shift money away from law enforcement agencies.
About two-thirds of the funding was earmarked for police overtime and will be used to provide services and programs for communities of color, including a youth summer jobs program. The City Council’s 12-2 vote will drop the number of officers from 9,988 as of last month to 9,757 by next summer, abandoning a goal of 10,000 officers only reached in 2013.
Other cities around the country also have cut police budgets or are moving to do so, including a move in Minneapolis to disband the city’s force. New York City lawmakers approved an austere budget Wednesday that will cut $1 billion from the NYPD budget and move it to education and social services in the coming year. In California, liberal Berkeley passed a budget Wednesday that cuts $9.2 million from police, while Oakland leaders last week slashed $14.6 million from law enforcement and they are considering steeper reductions.
The Los Angeles vote reduces the LAPD’s nearly $2 billion budget. Democratic Mayor Eric Garcetti had earlier proposed increasing it in April to help preserve the staffing level of 10,000 officers.
There was no immediate comment from the LAPD.
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THESE PEOPLE ARE INSANE!!!!!!!!.................
What could go wrong?
They could hire the Bloods or Crips or Hell’s Angels to handle security................
Look for a boom in private security jobs.
Business savvy ex cops could do quite well protecting enlightened limousine liberals when their base decides to eat them.
PS. They always eat their own.
Add Bel Air, Brentwood, Hollywood....................
“The State Department has issued a travel alert for Americans traveling to Los Angeles, due to local government surrender of control to terrorists.” </sarc>
</sarc> may be unnecessary soon...............it will be real..............
Straight outta Compton!
I feel for those who will be collateral damage to this absolute lunacy, but the perpetrators of these policies deserve what will happen. Stupid, stupid, stupid!
This is good news for protection rackets.
And people who run protection rackets are much kinder and gentler than police officers /s
Does this mean that with the next update of Grand Theft Auto it only goes up to three stars?
Straight outta the Communist manifesto!.................
I feel for those who will be collateral damage to this absolute lunacy, but the perpetrators of these policies deserve what will happen.
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The perpetrators will increase the budget for their own protection.
Nice family you have there, pity something should happen to them.
Mayors will direct LEOs to focus on anybody attacking rioters.
"We have to raise taxes or we'll have to cut police protection."
Yup-American cities will all look like the set of ‘Omega Man’, when it’s over.
Who cares... it you s*&t where you eat... that’s what happens.
There aren’t enough tax dollars to rehab these communities and nothing NEAR the consensus or political will needed to do that, even IF US taxpayers would support it.
Nope-they killed the goose that lays the golden egg!
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