20 Apr 2021
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti proposed a new program Monday to use therapy rather than policing to respond to some nonviolent emergencies, outlining the idea in his “State of the City” speech.
Unveiling what he called a “Justice Budget,” fueled by cash from President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion “COVID relief” bill, Garcetti proposed new spending on a variety of “progressive” programs, including on public safety.
Garcetti said that he opposed efforts to “abolish the police,” but he said that the “burden” of some police work should be handled by other programs: “We have lived for far too long in an America that outsourced the work of public safety only to a few, instead of embracing it as the work of us all. While much of that work is heroic, too often it is tragic as well.”
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Barely into the new year, and Los Angeles has had 50 homicides and 192 shooting victims - more than double the toll this time last year. (Shutterstock)
LOS ANGELES, CA The city of Los Angeles recorded 11 homicides last week, up from four homicides during the same week in 2020 and continuing an upward trend.
According to Los Angeles Police Department Assistant Chief Horace Frank, the city so far this year has had 50 homicides and 192 shooting victims, versus 31 homicides and 70 shooting victims at the same point in 2020.
Overall, violent crime has increased 0.7%, Frank told the Police Commission, while property crime throughout the city has decreased in all areas except stolen vehicles.