Los Angeles Residents Call on City to Defund the LAPD
thewrap.comPeople’s Budget LA — a proposal created by a coalition led by Black Lives Matter Los Angeles.Earlier this month, following protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd and demands from activists that the city cut funding to the police, Mayor Eric Garcetti said a planned seven percent increase in funding for the LAPD would be canceled and that the city would look to make $100-150 million in cuts to the police.During Monday’s meeting, the city council’s budget and finance committee heard from organizers with Black Lives Matter LA to advocate for the People’s Budget, which would reduce the allocation of funding to the LAPD to nearly six percent and allocate the most funding to “Universal Aid and Crisis Management,” which the budget proposal.
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