Posted on 06/04/2020 10:49:18 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In protests against police brutality and George Floyd’s death, demonstrators have cried, “defund the police.” The idea isn’t new, but the increased support for cutting police department budgets is.
While the coronavirus pandemic has taken a heavy toll on the economy and government resources, police departments have largely been spared from proposed cuts in post-pandemic budgets, reported Fast Company, which looked at budget proposals in major cities across the country. In fact, cities including Los Angeles, Minneapolis and Washington, D.C., are considering increasing the budget of their police departments while cutting elsewhere.
Reportedly, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) was initially looking at an additional $123 million for the 2020-21 fiscal year, increasing the budget by 7.1 percent, according to the Los Angeles Times. At the same time, the Housing and Community Investment department budget would be cut by 9.4 percent.
But after nearly a week of protests, officials are now considering $100 million to $150 million in cuts from the city's police budget, the Times reports. Mayor Eric Garcetti said the city would “identify $250 million in cuts so we can invest in jobs, in health, in education and in healing,” the Times reported.
Members of the city council also introduced a motion asking the mayor to identify where those cuts could be made and calling on city officials to look into where those funds could be reinvested. Local lawmakers in other cities, including New York and Washington, are also considering similar actions.
Plans to defund the police center around redirecting functions that local police officers typically execute, including responding to individuals in distress, to more specialized departments. At least 1 in every 4 people killed by police has a serious mental illness, according to a report by the Treatment Advocacy Center.
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This is the emergency operator..., I am patching you through to the emergency social worker on duty..., she will assist you!
I think it’s a great idea. Let these Leftist idiots turn their cities into free fire war zones.
Thank you Lord that I don’t live in a rat controlled city.
they will not see it coming....
You think the shootings in these cities are bad now. Criminals plus people worried about criminals plus no cop = lots of death.
Get out of the blue zones, double time.
I hope the Dems run on this platform.
Every city that stops or lowers police funding in favor of fiancing “community organizers” should have their federal aid terminated. Let those cities sink into the muck of a living hell for everyone stupid enough to live in them.
If you’re law-abiding, a property owner, a biz owner, a taxpayer, have kids: get out now.
Detroit here we come
Ok, then who is going to protect the mailman? No white money checks for you!
Community building efforts...
And why would they do that?
So the jackasses can burn the rebuilt communities to the
ground again in a couple of years?
Our leaders have lost the ability to use common sense.
Yes I agree. Then watch fire fighters and EMS stop answering most calls.
The court system too could shut down, with no arrests there would be no criminals..It just gets better and better doesn’t it?
The man with the biggest and most guns is in control. This is how to get freedom for sure..
excellent analogy!
So wait, let me get this straight. So if groups of taxpayers started driving into these cities at night and making welfare parasites disappear, there would be no one to investigate? Interesting.
Oh sure, rebuild the community so the ingrates can burn it down again. Great idea.
This is radical activism again. No sane person (emphasis on sane) wants the police departments to shrink at this time.
de-funding police leads to anarchy - perhaps the pols are Antifa supporters. They are whether they know it or not.
Great news if you hold stock in Smith & Wesson.
Damn best quote of the day!
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