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Note the LAPD budget is more than $1 billion, so this is less than 10% of the LAPD budget. I'm not saying it's nothing, but I am optimistically hoping to defuse any Chicken Little cries of "Los Angeles will have no police on the streets!"
Certainly, this is an experiment in how to address problems in a big city. But it seems at least a reasonable one. Let us discuss it as reasonable people.
Note that some care is being taken to continue to address safety. Mayor Garcetti vetoed the first plan. The Council has now overridden that veto, but also changed the spending to be more in line with Garcetti's call that the plan should focus more on "racial justice, income inequality and community safety programs." Garcetti has blessed the new deal.
For months, L.A. politicians have wrestled with how to spend tens of millions of dollars cut from the city’s Police Department budget after protests erupted over George Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis last May.
On Tuesday, in a rare move, the City Council voted to override Garcetti’s veto, then went on to pass a more detailed proposal that seems to hew closer to his vision for how to allocate the money. Garcetti, in a statement, said he supports the council’s latest version of the spending plan.
$14 million slated for policing alternatives, including community intervention officers
$18 million would be allocated for homeless prevention and homeless services
$6 million would go toward a universal basic income pilot program in Councilman Curren Price’s South L.A. and downtown district.
$7.75 million would go to a fund dedicated to paying for an “unarmed response” to homelessness and nonviolent calls
Under the program, the greatest share of the money will go to districts with the greatest number of census tracts experiencing poverty and unemployment.
Other spending is still to be decided.
Certainly, this is an experiment in how to address problems in a big city. But it seems at least a reasonable one. Let us discuss it as reasonable people.
Note that some care is being taken to continue to address safety. Mayor Garcetti vetoed the first plan. The Council has now overridden that veto, but also changed the spending to be more in line with Garcetti's call that the plan should focus more on "racial justice, income inequality and community safety programs." Garcetti has blessed the new deal.
For months, L.A. politicians have wrestled with how to spend tens of millions of dollars cut from the city’s Police Department budget after protests erupted over George Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis last May.
On Tuesday, in a rare move, the City Council voted to override Garcetti’s veto, then went on to pass a more detailed proposal that seems to hew closer to his vision for how to allocate the money. Garcetti, in a statement, said he supports the council’s latest version of the spending plan.
$14 million slated for policing alternatives, including community intervention officers
$18 million would be allocated for homeless prevention and homeless services
$6 million would go toward a universal basic income pilot program in Councilman Curren Price’s South L.A. and downtown district.
$7.75 million would go to a fund dedicated to paying for an “unarmed response” to homelessness and nonviolent calls
Under the program, the greatest share of the money will go to districts with the greatest number of census tracts experiencing poverty and unemployment.
Other spending is still to be decided.
