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.