The Los Angeles Police Department requested nearly $67 million in funding to help improve protest response on Tuesday, leading to a major backlash from many groups who have been trying to reduce their budget since the George Floyd protests last year.
According to a report from LAPD Chief Michel Moore, the department needs around $67 million more in funding, as well as 50 officers, to help improve the LAPD’s response to protests, riots, and other similar unrest due to an increase of such incidents since last year. Of the requested funding, $53 million would go towards civil unrest training for officers, including crowd control and using non-lethal weapons in crowd control settings, $4 million for a new bureau focused on protest and group event response, and remaining funds to go into protest group outreach, software and field equipment upgrades, and other protest group related costs.
Last year, the Los Angeles City Council defunded the LAPD by $150 million, removing 350 officers from the force in November and cutting other expenditures. However, with continued protests over police violence against minorities, protests over the removal homeless people in areas around the city, and other demonstrations.
However, despite the need by the LAPD outlined on Tuesday, many groups opposed to increased funding for police, such as Black Lives Matters, insisted that funding should continue to be reduced and that no new officers should be added to the force.
“This is the absolute opposite of what we should be considering,” said Black Lives Matter Los Angeles co-founder Melina Abdullah on Tuesday. “We should be pulling funding away from them, not pouring funding into them. The notion that they should be getting $67 million to comply with those reports, it’s absolutely ridiculous. It is clear they are using the report as a money run.”
However, supporters for the funding increase noted that the LAPD’s response to protests during the last few years, which has been criticized by many for being too violent, only came about because the officers had not been properly trained to deal with them, and that the police had no direct line of communication with the protest groups to anticipate where they would be going or what size they would be. more here
What a quandary: anyone who would want up be a cop in L.A.anymore, would have to be mentally ill, or just outright stupid, which makes them unqualified for the job.
After the Rodney king riots, the LAPD, LASO, and the CHP revamped their entire crowd control training, it is still an integral part of all these police academies.
Lack of training is not the problem, the ability to respond in a timely manner with enough bodies and the lack of will with the leaders to not give up the streets and protect it’s citizens, that is the problem. Having a couple hundred officers 5 blocks away in a “holding” zone while the city burns and good law-abiding people are attacked willy-nilly, shameful.
NO. Leftism appears to work in Leftist run Cities/States only because DC keeps bailing them out with other people’s money.
If the voters there are never made to experience the real outcome of Leftism, they will never vote against it, and vote Right.
No more bail outs. Each State and City should be aiming to support themselves.
Buy morw sniper rifles – and use them.
Protester relations is very nice. It is an office that issues permits.
Riot, arson, and organized destruction by groups of people should be met with lethal force until they disperse.
Protests are lawful. Anarchy is not. It’s just that simple.
“Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.”
Easy peasy….Let’s move on.
Is this the new movement… Re-Fund the Police???
Brad.
That’s alot of ammo.
How much do you think we can appropriate 😉?
Or they could just let the “Rooftop Koreans” do it for free.
Badass Hard Working People!
@Anonymous
Sniper rifle?
Its Cali. 1 Minigun (the hose)