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Well, it's certainly confusing. But LA County isn't the only source of funding for the police either. The city appears to contribute ~1.9B a year out of a 10.5B
by bscphil 4y ago
Well, it's certainly confusing. But LA County isn't the only source of funding for the police either. The city appears to contribute ~1.9B a year out of a 10.5B budget in discretionary police spending. https://cao.lacity.org/budget20-21/2020-21Budget_Summary.pdf https://cao.lacity.org/budget20-21/2020-21Budget_Summary.pdf
My understanding is that if you include non-discretionary spending (pensions etc) that number goes up significantly.
- tptacek 4y agoLet me just say that I don't doubt LAPD is too expensive. I'm just saying, if we're making assessments based on percentages, those percentages only make sense in the context of all taxing bodies. Observing that something takes up 23% (or 51%) of a single taxing body doesn't mean anything at all; it just establishes that particular taxing body owns the LAPD.