Posted on 07/21/2021 3:56:13 AM PDT by Zakeet
Democratic mayors in 20 of the nation’s 25 biggest cities slashed police department budgets and positions even as they spent millions of tax dollars on their own security details, according to data obtained by a government watchdog.
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In San Francisco, for example, the costs of the security detail protecting Mayor London Breed and other city officials spiraled from $1.7 million in 2015 to $2.6 million in 2020.
Breed has proposed shifting $120 million from the city’s police department to mental health and workforce training programs. City officials declined to say how many officers are assigned to the security details, according to OTB.
In Chicago, Mayor Lori Lightfoot claimed to be opposed to defunding the police, but OTB found officials quietly abolished 400 police department positions last year.
Those positions were eliminated even as the city’s “security detail costs peaked in 2020 – up $700,000 over five years ...
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Notable among the other cities examined by OTB were these:
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You Freepers should know this is fake news ... cause Rats are never hypocrites ...
For those who want to know without opening the source article, “OTB” is the acronym for ‘Open The Books’, a Chicago non-profit that uses Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA), and other ‘sunshine’ & public ‘right-to-know’ laws, to monitor government (local/state/regional & Federal) spending of taxpayer dollars. Their goal is to detail “every dime online in real time.”
Kudos. I KNEW it before reading the source and verifying. They are an incredible group. Yeoman work. And worth a follow on Twitter.
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