Despite a year of calls to defund the police, council adds $2.7 million to HRP’s budget
A bleak signal of what’s to come on police reform in this city.
If the words of Mike Savage, quoting Joe Biden—"Don't tell me what you value, show me your budget and I'll tell you what you value"—are true, what does Halifax Regional Council’s approach to police budgeting say? In a year teeming with calls to defund or at least reallocate police money, and in a meeting where those calls were voiced inside council’s virtual chamber, yesterday council voted to pour even more cash into three different police requests.