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Pittsburgh City County Building Today, Pittsburgh City Council offered amendments to Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto’s 2021 budget proposal. They included allocating $9.4 million dollars away from two contentious sections of the budget: police funding and the Mon-Oakland Connector autonomous vehicle/infrastructure proposal.
According to TribLive, about $5.3 million will be moved from the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police and the Public Safety department to fund a new Stop the Violence initiative spearheaded by city councilors Ricky Burgess (D-Point Breeze) and Daniel Lavelle (D-Hill District).
The $5 million shift from the police budget is not as ambitious has some advocates were hoping, as it only represents about a 5% decrease of about $110 million overall that was proposed by the mayor. Advocates were calling for a 50% reduction in police funding, citing Pittsburgh s relatively high volume of police force compared t ....

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