I’m curious from savvy LA folks. How much of this is cities being completely screwed by this pandemic recession and needing to cut depts drastically anyway vs. a meaningful reallocation of % share?https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1268550576322691072 …
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Replying to @kimmaicutler
whether the cuts are driven by pandemic recession or not, this is not a meaningful reallocation of % share. police accounts for 41% of the TOTAL budget $100-150M cut to police of a $250M overall cut is 40% on the low end and 60% on the high end
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Replying to @tonysheng @kimmaicutler
so this is a 5-8% cut to the police budget amidst a 5.5% cut to the overall budget source: http://cao.lacity.org/budget20-21/2020-21Budget_Summary.pdf … (Exhibit A)
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Replying to @tonysheng @kimmaicutler
(actually these numbers are off a little because they are applying the announced cuts to the proposed 2020-2021 budget and not the revised one where the police budget increase was reversed. would mean a marginally higher relative cut to police. but point still stands)
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Replying to @tonysheng @kimmaicutler
If you're curious to learn more about this topic or get involved this is the main organization fighting for defunding of the LAPD (to my knowledge)https://peoplesbudgetla.com/2020/06/05/peoples-budget-la-150-million-in-cuts-proposed-to-lapd-is-a-start-but-city-council-and-mayor-garcetti-need-to-go-much-further/ …
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