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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Do it!!! Get rid of the police and NEVER stop a person of color for a car infraction-EVER. Let them loot-everything free. See how long the store owners stick around. Also get rid of ambulances and fire engines. The will be called in fraudulently and trucks burned and employees killed, Leave them to themselves (as scripture says). Chaos will ensue quickly.
I post a very similar response to a thread on Nextdoor.com and I was immediately banned. Guess they don't want to hear the truth.
NYC and all of these cities better hope there isn’t another attack like happened on September 11th, 2001. There won’t be anybody going to try to help the victims out.
About half of the country is hysterical, irrational, insane, crazy and stupid and doesn’t know its head is up its anal exit passageway. The same ones who voted for bammy, favor reparations, and will vote for creepy uncle joe.
Competing drug cartels, warlords, fighting over their turf?
Now is the time to put an initiative on the ballot to ELIMINATE Property Taxes, since they aint paying for cops, I want my MONEY BACK! !!
This went https://www.mediaite.com/news/former-nbc-executive-sounds-alarm-on-bidens-young-voter-problem-he-hasnt-inspired-them-at-all/under the radar but it says trump voters are THIRTY FIVE points more enthusiastic to vote than Biden voters.
Anarachists will be anarchists.
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