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In your town more money is spent on the police than the public schools? Certainly not in mine.
by Bostonian 6y ago
In your town more money is spent on the police than the public schools? Certainly not in mine.
- jessaustin 6y agoIn much of USA the school district is a separate entity from the city. Often this is because many students live outside city limits.
- dv_dt 6y agoMy town may have something atypicial about its finances at 50%, if you look at the budget of San Jose it seems about $400m for city services and $200m for police and fire. I didn't pick it apart further between police/fire, but IIRC fire tends to have much smaller budgets than police depts. But I would say that's still shockingly large vs the budget for other city services.. (that's setting aside some large chunks for airports etc..., I was also a bit surprised SJ had a $4B budget and how much was for airport services). Edit: I guess looking at Oakland/Chicago, it's 50% or close to it too though. https://www.gq.com/story/cops-cost-billions https://www.gq.com/story/cops-cost-billions "Oakland PD receives nearly half of the city's discretionary spending( $264 million out of $592 million), dwarfing every other expenditure, including human services, parks and recreation, and transportation combined. A whopping 39 percent of Chicago's 2017 budget went to police, and still the department got even more money, peaking in 2020 with a 7 percent increase to nearly $1.8 billion. "