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Police face defunding while LA homicides increase 250%, shootings 56% during protest week

Police face defunding while LA homicides increase 250%, shootings 56% during protest week 1

LOS ANGELES, CA – Homicides in Los Angeles were said to have increased 250% this week over last week.

Just to be clear, that’s not a typo: Homicides increased 250% in one week.

Additionally, the number of people shot rose by 56%.

The outrageous jump was recorded for the week of May 31-June 6, and authorities have said that the extreme violence rages on.

Tuesday afternoon, the LAPD said in a statement:

“The past 24 hours has seen four shootings, one of those resulting in a homicide.” 

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It’s unclear if the increase in violence was due to easing COVID-19 restrictions in the area or violence related to the George Floyd riots, or both.

As violence in the area skyrockets, the LAPD is facing a major decrease in funding thanks to liberal Mayor Eric Garcetti.

In a move destined to appease social justice warriors, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti called on the LAPD to improve its sensitivity training by improving how the department recruits officers, trains them, and then monitors them during their duty.

Garcetti joined presidential candidate and fellow Democrat Joe Biden, along with mayors from several other major cities, in a discussion on police protests last week. The purpose was to address the nation’s response to the protests, as well as how to handle the continue COVID-19 situation.

Garcetti said:

“One is you’ve got to focus on how you make a police officer…the second is how you grow a police officer, and then third, how you police the police.”

Garcetti, whose father, Gil Garcetti, was Los Angeles mayor from 1992-2000, is co-chair of Biden’s election committee. The elder Garcetti served as mayor during the Rodney King riots.

Garcetti continued:

“No officer wants to use violence or wants to have any prejudice in their heart, so they have to find a way to become a better police officer and human being. We all should go through implicit bias training, by the way, not just police officers.”

Biden added:

“It’s been a horrible last six months, a hundred thousand people dead, more than that, from the current pandemic. What’s happening now is a consequence of what happened to George [Floyd].

“I think that the blinders have sort have been taken off the American people. And I think they’re ready to do something about it. I think they’re ready to see some real institutional change, relative to the whole notion of systemic racism.”

Garcetti echoed Biden’s sentiment:

“We do see not only the pent-up pain of the pandemic, but more the repressed rage of racism in this country, and those two things [collided] in a moment when people saw the latest chapter of this dark, dark book.”

The mayor went on to praise police chiefs from across the country:

“I’ve never seen so many police chiefs speak out. I’ve never had so many conversations with police officers who were sickened [by Floyd’s death]. We had good cops and everyday citizens and young people and a nation that was united by what we saw and condemning it, and we can’t let anything divide that moment.”

However, this new initiative by Garcetti to retrain and rework the police comes at a time when, in a seeming contradiction, the mayor has also proposed a $150 million cut to the department’s budget. It’s hard to add more training programs and increase oversight with less money, but apparently Garcetti thinks it can be done.

Or he is incredibly naïve. The jury is still out.

If Garcetti’s proposal succeeds, the LAPD will have to shuffle around the rest of their budget to fulfill other financial obligations, such as patrol expenses, equipment upkeep, and payroll.

It is unclear whether this lower budget will require a reduction in force or services. Also unclear is whether this $150 million budget cut is a one-time event or will turn into an ongoing issue that Police Chief Michel Moore will have to fight for years to come.

Here’s Law Enforcement Today’s original report on the major cutting of LAPD budget.

 The mayor of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti, levied a challenge toward the city on June 3rd to identify budgetary cuts in the realm of $250 million to be redirected in investing into communities of color, women and “people who have been left behind.”

Apparently, up to $150 million has already been identified and is being cut from the LAPD’s budget.

These redirected funds, according to Mayor Garcetti, are “so we can invest in jobs, in health, in education and in healing.”

While the notion of jobs, healthcare, and education are fairly easy to envision how funds can be used, the “healing” portion isn’t something clearly defined as to the “what” and “how” of that mentioned endeavor.

Eileen Decker, who serves as the president of the Los Angeles Police Commission, noted that somewhere between $100 million to $150 million would be pulled directly from police department funding.

City Council President Nury Martinez had also brought up the idea of extracting funds for policing prior to Decker’s approval of the notion.

The annual budget for the LAPD, as it currently stands, is $1.86 billion.

If the entire $150 million cited is extracted from the annual LAPD budget, that would bring down the monetary resources to $1.71 billion.

It is unclear whether this would be a one-time extraction or an ongoing amendment to the budget moving forward annually.

Melina Abdullah, one of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter’s Los Angeles outfit, reportedly feels as though the budget cuts mentioned are not enough.

What also isn’t clear is what these budget cuts will be aimed at exactly within the department.

There are numerous ways that these budget cuts to policing could be enabled.

A few possible ways would be a reduction in force at various precincts, altering the cadence of equipment maintenance for the likes of cruisers, dialing back pay increases, eliminating overtime opportunities, or avoiding equipment purchases that were planned for the year.

Essentially, some forms of budgetary cuts can be more detrimental than others for a department – but any form of reduced financing is hardly ever desirable for those tasked with directing funds.

If the budget must be cut, which it seems it does, the LAPD will have to determine a manner in which the police force’s ability to serve the community isn’t terribly hindered. That task is one that any police department would not envy.

Hopefully, the LAPD can adhere to the requested slashing of the budget in a manner that creates the least amount to tangible harm to the department’s mission.

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These cuts requested clearly stem from the protests and riots that sparked in California, which started on May 27th, following the death of George Floyd.

Here’s Law Enforcement Today’s report from May 27th when we first got word of the demonstrations reaching California.

LOS ANGELES, CA – Reports are coming in of more than 1,000 protestors descending on downtown Los Angeles as the protests over George Floyd spread from Minneapolis to California.

Highways were shut down by protesters before things turned violent.

Law Enforcement Today has learned from multiple sources that a Black Lives Matter protester was severely injured after being thrown from the hood of a police cruiser in downtown during the demonstration.

Wednesday afternoon, the first break-off protest popped up and quickly turned violent.

Shocking aerial footage captured several protesters as they surrounded and smashed out the back windows of the California Highway Patrol cruiser before one man climbed on top of the hood. 

We’re told the police officer tried to take off in self defense, and that the man rode on the hood for several seconds before he was sent tumbling off the car into the road. 

When backup arrived, the windows of that cruiser were also smashed and it was seen fleeing the scene.

EMT’s rushed out to attend to the man, who was pictured lying motionless on the ground momentarily before being taken away in an ambulance.

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