Councilmembers Hugo Soto-Martínez, Eunisses Hernandez and Nithya Raman voted no, voicing alarm at the reductions.
The Los Angeles City Council signed off on Mayor Karen Bass' $12.8 billion budget on Thursday, cutting 1,700 vacant positions and engaging in a back-and-forth over police spending. On a 12 to 3 vote, the council approved a spending plan that eliminates the positions at agencies responsible for animal shelters, public works, transportation programs, cultural activities, maintenance of city buildings and many other services. The cuts are not expected to result in layoffs.
The council's debate over law enforcement spending comes at a time when the Los Angeles Police Department is continuing to shrink through attrition. The department has lost about 1,200 officers — a reduction of 12% — since 2019, the last full year before the outbreak of COVID-19. Bass' budget provides funding for the hiring of 574 officers in the upcoming fiscal year.
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