https://www.lawofficer.com/la-county-metro-boosts-police-funding-by-36m-due-to-spikes-in-crime/




LOS ANGELES — Officials in Los Angeles voted this week to re-fund their police amid an upswing in crime. Less than a year after “defund the police” fervor swept across major cities from coast to coast, Los Angeles County Metro, the region’s public transportation agency, voted Thursday to boost police funding by $36 million.

The vote passed 12-0, including a “yea” from Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, a major advocate of defund the police measures, who chairs the board.

The money will go toward the agency’s law-enforcement contracts with the Los Angeles Police Department, Long Beach Police Department and Los Angeles Sherriff’s Department, according to the New York Post.

Los Angeles has been among the nation’s leading communities in efforts to defund the police.

The city council voted last July to slash $150 million from the LAPD budget, while voters in November approved a measure to devote 10 percent of the city’s general fund to non-police public safety measures.

The region, however, has seen a sudden upswing in a variety of crimes over the past year.

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were gonna give the cops more money, but were gonna eliminate bail, block minorities from being arrested, drop charges from the ones who are, including felons possessing guns, and turn a blind eye to as many charges as possible, make shoplifting $1000 minimum before we charge and arrest, and probably make home burglary, vehicle theft and property crimes  all ticketable offenses, with no arrests as well. to be more inclusive.

for some reason the crime rate went up ! we probably need to fire some of those white cops and hire more minorities, women and gays, that will help..

In liberal world, 1+1 doesn’t always equal 2. Sometime it equals 2, sometimes 3, sometimes 5, sometimes X. You never know what you are going to get. It’s a surprise every day.

Looks like LA is going to have to spend more money on police in the future....so much for defunding them.......

Bear in mind....these units they are talking about aren't police.  They are lawyers....prosecutors.  


https://www.lawofficer.com/subversive-la-county-district-attorney-gutting-gang-and-narcotic-units/


Subversive LA County district attorney ‘gutting’ gang and narcotic units

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón reportedly “gutted” his office’s Hardcore Gang Unit and Major Narcotics Unit this week, severely downsizing both as he continues to undermine the nation’s largest criminal justice jurisdiction.

LA County district attorneyFOX 11 News investigative reporter Bill Melugin first reported that Gascón was planning to dismantle the Hardcore Gang Unit more than two weeks ago. On Wednesday, multiple unnamed sources told Melugin that upper management had called a meeting to inform prosecutors that the unit would be cut back.

“They were told that George Gascón wants to, quote, ‘reimagine’ the unit, make it more community-based, that they want to change the name because Gascón and the administration don’t like the name,” Melugin told KFI’s John and Ken Show. “An hour before this meeting, the Major Narcotics Unit had a similar meeting, and they were told that half of their unit is going to be wiped out as well. And those transfer lists have already started going out. So in one afternoon, Gascón and his administration decided to downsize the major narco unit as well as the hardcore gangs unit.”

D.A. Gascón has repeatedly said that he views himself as part of a progressive movement that has prioritized implementing sweeping criminal justice reforms across the nation, Daily Wire reported.

A prosecutor in Gascón’s office speaking on the condition of anonymity told FOX 11, “the gang unit was pretty much decimated.” The source said management acknowledged the change would create a “nightmare” as the Hardcore Gang Unit has about 700 active cases.

The Hardcore Gangs unit is one of the oldest units in the office and it’s responsible for prosecuting the most heinous and complex gang-related crimes in the country, according to FOX 11.

Prosecutors previously told the news organization they’ve already been hamstrung by Gascón’s decision to ban them from using gang and gun enhancements. With that in mind, prosecutors told Melugin earlier in the month that disbanding the Hardcore Gangs unit will be a disaster waiting to happen, given the surge in violent crimes across Los Angeles.

Melugin recently spoke to an unnamed prosecutor who declared, “We can already hear in jail calls and interviews with officers on the street telling us that the gang members are laughing at them.” The source reportedly said Gascón’s policy changes had emboldened gang members and “undermined the credibility of law enforcement in its entirety.”

L.A. County Sheriff Alex Villanueva, who supports an effort to recall Gascón from office, blasted his decision to downsize the Hardcore Gang Unit.

“While gang members are busy driving up LA County’s homicide rate, LA DA @GeorgeGascon is now dismantling the Hardcore Gang Unit that works in collaboration with local law enforcement,” Sheriff Villanueva tweeted. “This can only serve to add gasoline to a raging fire of gang violence that threatens the safety of all. This is not reform, it’s beginning to look more and more like a suicide pact.”

According to the L.A. Daily News, county officials have been reviewing a recall petition submitted by a group called Victims of Violent Crime for the Recall of District Attorney George Gascón. The outlet reported that a potential recall election “could begin to take shape” this month.

Good fuck them all.