{"id":2011781,"date":"2023-08-25T10:20:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T14:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fund-the-police-la-votes-to-put-1-billion-toward-cops-pay\/"},"modified":"2023-08-25T10:22:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T14:22:30","slug":"fund-the-police-la-votes-to-put-1-billion-toward-cops-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fund-the-police-la-votes-to-put-1-billion-toward-cops-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Votes to Allocate $1 Billion for Police Salaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffund-the-police-la-votes-to-put-1-billion-toward-cops-pay%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2011781&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><section id=\"article\">\n<article data-post-title=\"Fund the Police: LA Votes To Put $1 Billion Toward Cops' Pay\" data-post-slug=\"http:\/\/kremlin-denies-killing-wagner-chief\" data-post-url id=\"print-1787382\">\n<div>\n<p><h2>Vote\u2063 comes as crime soars and LAPD\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/medical-professor-warned-colleagues-that-schools-racial-preferences-were-illegal-and-he-was-removed-from-directorship-now-hes-suing\/\" title=\"Medical Professor Warned Colleagues That School\u2019s Racial Preferences Were Illegal And He Was Removed From Directorship. Now He\u2019s Suing.\">retention<\/a> rates plummet<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>\n          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/example.com\/image.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Eric Thayer\/Getty\u2063 Images\"><br \/>\n        <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Amid plummeting retention rates and soaring crime, the Los Angeles City Council \u200con Wednesday voted\u200d to allocate nearly $1 billion\u2063 for cops&#8217; pay \u200dto stop them from quitting\u2014just three years after it slashed the police budget by up to $150 million.<\/p>\n<p>The council,\u200c made up\u200b of \u200b14 Democrats and one independent, agreed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fund-the-police-la-votes-to-put-1-billion-toward-cops-pay\/\" title=\"LA Votes to Allocate  Billion for Police Salaries\">boost police recruits\u2019 pay<\/a> by 13 percent, while adding annual &#8220;retention&#8221;\u200c pay increases to keep them on the force. The pay rise will cost the city $994 million over the next four years, \u2063according\u2063 to a\u2063 representative for the\u2062 police union.<\/p>\n<p>The 12-3 vote is a \u200dpendulum swing for the\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anti-racists-behind-school-enemies-list-now-gathering-info-on-children-as-top-prosecutor-joins-in\/\" title=\"\u2018Anti-Racists\u2019 Behind School Enemies List Now Gathering Info On Children As Top Prosecutor Joins In\">progressive city<\/a> that only three years prior voted to &#8220;defund&#8221; the police. In June 2020, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/union-says-austin-police-dept-battling-crime-spike-hundreds-of-officers-short-after-defund-the-police\/\" title=\"Union claims Austin Police Dept struggling with crime surge, lacks hundreds of officers due to 'Defund The Police' movement.\">city council\u200d voted<\/a>\u2064 to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/losangeles\/news\/los-angeles-city-council-approves-lapd-budget-cuts-department-temporarily-stops-overtime-pay\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">slash the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/more-than-200-seattle-police-officers-quit-citing-anti-police-climate\/\" title=\"More Than 200 Seattle Police Officers Quit Citing \u2018Anti-Police\u2019 Climate\">law enforcement budget<\/a><\/a> by up to \u2064$150 million \u2062in the wake of George Floyd\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>Six months after \u200cthese\u200c budget cuts,\u200c the Los Angeles Police Department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/losangeles\/news\/lapd-to-move-more-officers-to-patrol-downsize-air-support-robbery-homicide-divisions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced that officers<\/a> \u200bwould no longer respond to car \u2064crashes and would shrink\u200c its robbery and \u2064homicide \u2062and\u200b gang and narcotics divisions. The department also stopped staffing \u200dits station \u2064desks on weekends.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, crime is up and \u200dthe police \u200bforce has dipped below 9,000 officers for \u200bthe first time in\u200b more than 20 \u200dyears.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles, like other blue cities, has\u200d reeled under \u200ca\u2062 crime surge since 2020. While violent crime dipped in \u200b2023 compared to\u200c the year before, <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/lapd-violent-crime-los-angeles-homicide-rate\/13167108\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">murders and assaults are up<\/a>. The county\u2019s progressive district attorney George Gasc\u00f3n\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/las-soros-backed-da-sitting-on-10000-cases\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is sitting<\/a> on \u200ba \u200b10,000-case backlog.<\/p>\n<p>In May, the \u2063county reinstated a zero-bail policy for anyone charged\u200b with nonviolent felonies, leading the rapper \u2062Curtis &#8220;50 \u200cCent&#8221; Jackson <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/rapper-50-cent-says-la-is-finished-after-city-abolishes-bail\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to declare<\/a> that &#8220;L.A. is finished.&#8221; Since\u2064 then, \u200b&#8221;flash mobs&#8221; of dozens of young people have taken to ransacking luxury stores all over Los Angeles County, overwhelming \u200cstaff through brute force and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.police1.com\/task-force\/articles\/los-angeles-to-form-task-force-to-stop-smash-and-grab-mob-robberies-at-shops-malls-wsBey5YBW74vUiy7\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">making off with merchandise<\/a> worth hundreds of \u2062thousands of dollars. In response, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D.) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.ca.gov\/2023\/08\/17\/chp-la-crime-crackdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has\u200b deployed<\/a> \u2062more\u2063 California\u2063 Highway \u200cPatrol to Los Angeles as backup.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles City Council voted to allocate almost $1 billion for police pay to prevent further resignations, as crime rates rise and LAPD retention rates decline. This decision comes just three years after the council reduced the police budget by up to $150 million. 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