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Nov 4, 2020 · As of Wednesday afternoon, with a majority of votes counted, 57.1 percent of voters supported the measure, 42.9 percent opposed, according to the Los Angeles County registrar. The measure’s ...
- Roge Karma
Sep 5, 2024 · They inspired Los Angeles County voters to pass Measure J, which required 10% of locally generated, unrestricted county funds to be spent on social services and not law enforcement or jails, and ...
- Kevin Rector
- Staff Writer
- kevin.rector@latimes.com
- A False Narrative
- How Have Law Enforcement Agency Budgets Changed?
- Police Spending Doesn't Drive Crime Numbers
- An Exodus of Police Officers
Despite what the public record shows, an analysis of broadcast transcripts reveals that candidates, law enforcement leaders and television hosts discussed the impact of "defunding the police" more than 10,000 times the last two years and the mentions aren't subsiding this campaign season. "In communities across the country like in Los Angeles, San ...
ABC OTV's analysis of police budget data show police spending has been up in some of the very cities frequently cited by conservative politicians and pundits as places where Democrat leaders' defunding fueled violent crime waves. In Houston, where the homicide rate nearly doubled in 2020 and 2021 before starting to subside this year, local governme...
Even if the cuts were real, the premise that lower police spending leads to increased crime (or the other way around) is counter to decades of evidence, according to public data and criminal justice experts. An ABC OTV analysis of state and local police funding and violent crime data in the U.S. overall between 1985 and 2020 found no relationship b...
When shown data proving budgets were not cut, some police supporters pivot to saying that just calling for defunding police budgets hurt officer morale. That's become the position of police advocates in New York City. Following Floyd's murder in 2020, protestors clashed with New York police and some even lit cars on fire. Officers fought and arrest...
May 26, 2022 · As protests against the murder of George Floyd swept across the US in 2020, Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti shocked law enforcement officials with a pledge to cut $150mn from the city’s police ...
Oct 14, 2022 · The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is one of the 109 agency budgets Eyewitness News collected. Roughly 80% of these agencies saw increases of at least 2% in their budgets between fiscal ...
Nov 23, 2021 · In 2020 protesters marched in the streets to demand defunding the police, briefly gaining support from Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and the city council. However, the Los Angeles Police ...
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Sep 18, 2024 · The initiative is ahead by an astonishing 45 percentage points, according to a new poll of likely voters by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California: 71% to 26%, with only 3% undecided.
