LA Mayor Proposes Modest Boost to Policing Budget, Bucking ‘Defund Police’ Advocates
Democratic Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has called for a modest 3 percent increase in law enforcement funding after an 80 percent spike in shootings this year, bucking “defund the police” advocates.
Garcetti’s proposed $11.2-billion budget (pdf) for the coming fiscal year allocates $1.76 billion for the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), up from the $1.71 billion the council approved last summer when they opted to slash the police budget by $150 million amid protests and pressure to defund the police following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
“If you want to abolish the police, you’re talking to the wrong mayor,” Garcetti said on April 20, during his 2021 State of the City address in Los Angeles.
INSIDE THE LAPD The lawsuit caused by Robert Cain, an LAPD officer who had been grooming and abusing a teenage Cadet was settled by the city for just under $2 million of taxpayer funds to the family of Jane MBQ aka Belen Quijada.
Cain had previously been convicted and was sentenced to two years out of a possible eight, so a relatively light sentence.
You may recall stuntman and former Chief of LAPD Charlie Beck boldly hand cuffing Cain himself.
The narrative of the son of a former LAPD officer who worked in the Van Nuys and 77th Street divisions for ten years, before his arrest, grooming a cadet in the quasi-kindergarten of learning to be an LAPD officer is appalling and intolerable!