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Posted on 04/30/2026 1:40:14 PM PDT by BenLurkin
McDonnell told the council the LAPD is facing a massive funding problem for the 2028 Olympic Games. He warns that without specific city funding, the department will be stretched past its limits to protect both visitors and locals.
“The $1 billion budget is for all agencies involved in the Olympics, not just the LAPD, and will be restricted primarily to police officer overtime,” McDonnell said. “LA28 confirmed that they have zero police or public safety budget. And while they do have a security budget, it doesn’t cover law enforcement.”
LA28 told KTLA it’s grateful for the $1 billion from Congress, but the chief explained the current financial plan relies on a pooled budget shared by police, fire departments and federal agencies. He said that money is largely restricted to overtime reimbursement, which is capped out even in non-event years.
Already this fiscal year, with two months left to go, they’ve already surpassed the overtime budget, and it’s not even an Olympic year.
The LAPD projects it will need to deploy 6,700 officers across eight different venues during LA28. They have been provided money for more vehicles, but not the 800 they need or the equipment inside, according to LAPD.
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WOULD LOVE TRUMP ASKING THAT THE OLYMPICS BE MOVED
LA CANNOT HANDLE IT WITH THEIR CURRENT “LEADERS”.
The USA has the most expensive government, at all levels, known to mankind.
230 billion for the train to no where, criminal bastards crying
Tell them to use that high speed train to get to the Olympics venue.
FEMA must be called, to put in some trailer parks in some of those burned out places for athletes.
Move it to Dallas or Kansas city
They’ll get a short rehearsal this summer when the World Cup plays there. It should be interesting.
too bad, so sad ...
if the Dems hadn’t turned LA into such a shithole in the first place, it wouldn’t cost so much to clean it up, keep it safe for a couple of weeks and then let if revert back to shithole status ... bad choice for an Olympics ....
And we though New Orleans got looted during Katrina....
But nobody else wants to host the Olympics!
And you expect the American taxpayers to make up the difference. You shouldn’t have bid on the Olympics in the first place. CA is like NY, they will excel in finding creative ways to get Federal Money to pay for their stuff.
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