Los Angeles mayor calls for 3% INCREASE to LAPD s budget - bucking defund the police advocates - after shootings rise 80% this year
Mayor Eric Garcetti proposed to increase the LAPD budget this fiscal year, which starts July 1, by allocating $1.76 billion of the city s $11.2 billion budget
It equates to a three percent increase to the current police budget
The Los Angeles City Council slashed the police budget by $150 million last July amid the BLM and defund the police protests
The slight budget increase coincides with an uptick in crime across Los Angeles
According to LAPD crime statistics for last week, shootings are up 80 percent compared to the same period last year
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Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is proposing a slight increase in funding for the city’s Police Department for the upcoming budget year, disappointing advocates who have called for the agency’s defunding.
Garcetti’s proposed $11.2-billion budget allocates $1.76 billion for the LAPD, up from the $1.71 billion the council approved in July. The mayor’s plan, which covers the fiscal year starting July 1, would continue to provide a force of about 9,750 sworn police officers.
The number of officers at the department now is lower, however, because of retirements and resignations. The LAPD is expected to have 9,489 officers on June 30.
HeadlineApr 21, 2021
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has proposed a guaranteed basic income pilot program, which would make L.A. the largest U.S. city to run such a program.
Mayor Eric Garcetti: “This year, Los Angeles will launch the largest guaranteed basic income pilot of any city in America. We have budgeted $24 million to provide $1,000 a month to 2,000 households for an entire year, no questions asked.”
Data from a similar initiative in Stockton, California, has shown recipients had greater success in finding employment and improved mental health. Around one in five people in Los Angeles lives in poverty.
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Judge orders L.A. to offer shelter for homeless on Skid Row
FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2021, file photo, Jeff Page, right, also known as General Jeff, a homelessness activist and leader in the Downtown Los Angeles Skid Row Neighborhood Council, walks with U.S. District Court Judge David O. Carter, middle, and Michele Martinez, special master on the issues of homelessness, after a court hearing at Downtown Women s Center in Los Angeles. A judge overseeing a sweeping lawsuit about homelessness in Los Angeles has ordered the city and county Tuesday, April 20, 2021, to find shelter for all unhoused residents of Skid Row within 180 days. Judge David O. Carte