Mayor Garcetti vetoes city council spending plan that would have reallocated LAPD funds article
LOS ANGELES - Earlier this year, the city council diverted money out of the LAPD to go towards community projects after various protests called for defunding the police.
However, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti isn’t agreeing and gave a rare veto to those proposals, saying the money could be better spent to address social justice issues.
It was about seven months ago when hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets, chanting Defund the Police .
That led to the LA City Council approving a cut of $150 million from the LAPD budget to be reinvested in the community. There was a plan to take $88 million and funnel it into traditional city projects in poorer communities and communities of color. They talked about services like fixing sidewalks and beautifying parks. There were also crime intervention programs.
The Great Replacement: Los Angeles
Gregory Hood, American Renaissance, December 23, 2020
This is the ninth in a series about the continuing disappearance of whites from American cities (see our earlier entries for Birmingham, Washington, D.C., New York City, Chicago, Richmond, Milwaukee, Baltimore, and Philadelphia).
Many people still pretend that
is a myth or a conspiracy theory, but the graphs that accompany each article in this series prove them wrong. Every city has a different story but all have seen a dramatic replacement of whites by minorities.
Los Angeles is falling apart. The homicide rate is the highest it’s been in a decade. NBC 4 reported in October that there are trash piles in the streets, maggots in the buildings, and homeless camps overflowing with filth. Typhus and other “medieval diseases” have broken on in tent-city slums. Los Angeles is a leftist city, but it has the seventh-highest income inequality of the country’s 150 largest metro reg
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On Vaccines, It’s Every Country for Itself
The race to vaccinate the world against a once-in-a-century pandemic has begun in an all-too-familiar way.
Rich nations have gobbled up nearly all the global supply of the two leading
COVID-19 vaccines through the end of 2021, leaving many middle-income countries to turn to unproven drugs developed by China and Russia while poorer states face long waits for their first doses.
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“Richer countries will be able to vaccinate . their whole populations before vulnerable groups in many developing countries get covered,” said Suerie Moon, co-director of the Global Health Center at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.
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California small businesses are crumbling under the weight of a new stay-at-home order and a lack of meaningful financial assistance.
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