$150 million to reinvest into the black community

As peaceful protests continue,
LAPD budget could be cut by
up to $150 million to reinvest
in communities of color.

Los Angeles officials said
they will look to cut up to $150 million
from the police budget as part of
a wider effort to reinvest more dollars
into the local black community.

By BRITTNY MEJIA, DORANY PINEDA,
ALEJANDRA REYES-VELARDE,
JULIA WICK, HANNAH FRY,
RICHARD WINTON, LUKE MONEY,
COLLEEN SHALBY

As protests over police brutality
and the death of George Floyd
stretched into a sixth day,
Los Angeles officials said Wednesday
that they will look to cut $100 million to
$150 million from the city’s police budget
as part of a broader effort to reinvest
more dollars into the black community.

In all,
Mayor Eric Garcetti pledged that
the city would “identify $250 million
in cuts so we can invest in jobs,
in health, in education and in healing,”
especially in the city’s black community
“as well as communities of color and
women and people who have been
left behind.”

Those cuts, he said,
would be “to every department,
including the Police Department,
because we all have to be part of
this solution together. We all have to
step up and say, ‘What can we sacrifice?'”

Eileen Decker, president of
the Los Angeles Police Commission, said
that effort includes identifying
$100 million to $150 million in cuts
from the Police Department —
something City Council President
Nury Martinez and other council
members had called for earlier in the day.
The LAPD’s total annual budget is
$1.86 billion.

From: LA Times

6/3/2020

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