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2023-04-18 -War on Police-
Re-fund the Police: L.A. Mayor Calls to Hire 1,000 Cops, Recruit from HBCUs
[Breitbart] LOS ANGELES, California — Newly-installed Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass will call for the city to hire 1,000 additional Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers, after years of attrition thanks to her predecessor.

The LAPD used to have over 10,000 officers, but has fallen to just above 9,000. In 2020, as Breitbart News reported, then-Mayor Eric Garcetti bowed to the Black Lives Matter movement and promised to cut $150 million from the police budget — over 10% of the total — and to redistribute the money to “communities of color.” Garcetti, now the U.S. Ambassador to India, denied that LAPD cuts would lead to an increase in crime.

But crime has risen over the last four years from pre-pandemic levels — thanks also to L.A. County District Attorney George Gascón, a George Soros-backed radical whom Garcetti backed (after dumping incumbent Jackie Lacey, the first black woman to hold the post, whom Garcetti had previously endorsed for reelection).

Bass, who is set to deliver her first State of the City speech Monday, after 127 days in office, will unveil her proposal for more police in her budget speech on Tuesday. Notably, she will recommend that the LAPD recruit new officers from historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) — a move to increase diversity on the force and overcome resistance from the political far-left.
Posted by Skidmark 2023-04-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top

#1 The Bantu state. This is what minds such as Musk, VDH, Dilbert's Scott Adams, Carlson, and others fear.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-04-18 07:12||   2023-04-18 07:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Oh, yeah, I'm sure LA will be swamped with applications to join the LAPD; of course, indeed, anybody who does get hired will have to be indoctrinated accordingly.
Posted by DooDahMan 2023-04-18 07:32||   2023-04-18 07:32|| Front Page Top

#3 Why bother? Perps just get released by the DA.
Posted by Procopius2k 2023-04-18 08:45||   2023-04-18 08:45|| Front Page Top

#4 Oh sure, flush the force then target a single demographic for the recruitment pool. Seems we've seen this skit before.
Posted by Rex Mundi 2023-04-18 08:46||   2023-04-18 08:46|| Front Page Top

#5 Nevermind that most under represented group is hispanics, not blacks. What this looks like is an attempt to turn LAPD into the Post Office.
Posted by ed in texas 2023-04-18 09:27||   2023-04-18 09:27|| Front Page Top

#6 
Posted by Skidmark 2023-04-18 11:17||   2023-04-18 11:17|| Front Page Top

#7 Btw..3 armored trucks were robbed in Chicago today. Bridgeport neighborhood..FBeeeyes investigating.
Posted by Omiting Theting7288 2023-04-18 11:22||   2023-04-18 11:22|| Front Page Top

#8 ^^Brinks.
Posted by Omiting Theting7288 2023-04-18 11:27||   2023-04-18 11:27|| Front Page Top

#9 The pensions of those officers exiting active duty will crunch the budget as well. The defund movement was as dumb a move as we have seen excluding AB advertising.
Posted by Super Hose 2023-04-18 13:08||   2023-04-18 13:08|| Front Page Top

#10 Policing in Soros cities is the perfect no-show job.
Posted by Regular joe 2023-04-18 14:10||   2023-04-18 14:10|| Front Page Top

#11 LA is rushing to copy Chicago, just with better weather and beaches. At some point the black-brown alliance at CityHall will begin to replicate the relationships between Boyle Heights and Compton. La Raza and Mecha will emerge more overtly in opposition to Bass.
Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-04-18 16:10||   2023-04-18 16:10|| Front Page Top

#12 La Raza and Mecha will emerge more overtly in opposition to Bass.

A sort of Leninist - Trotskyist split.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-04-18 16:19||   2023-04-18 16:19|| Front Page Top

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