What it actually means to 'defund the police.' (via CNBCMakeIt)
Garcetti's original proposedallocates $3.14 billion out of $10.5 billion total to the police, double the budget for public works, the second-largest line item, and far more than the $30 million allocated to economic development.
The funding discrepancies are common in smaller cities, too. Over 33% of St. Louis's general fund was allocated to the police and corrections departments in fiscal year 2019, perSome legal organizations and activists say this is a big problem, especially when it comes at the expense of funding other services, like mental health care and educational programs.
"So much of policing right now is generated and directed toward quality-of-life issues, homelessness, drug addiction, domestic violence," Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza told In the wake of civil unrest, many politicians, including presumptive Democratic nominee for president Joe Biden, have advocated forThere are many different policies being circulated, but one popular form is community policing, which is when officers are assigned to engage more frequently within certain neighborhoods in, in the hopes that they will form stronger bonds.
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