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After more than a week of rioting, looting, vandalism and violence, the Mayor of Los Angeles announced yesterday that he intends to defund the city’s police department.\u00a0 Apparently taking a cue from “Black Lives Matter” leaders who have said publicly that police should be abolished, Eric Garcetti suggested cutting LAPD funding by $100 to $150 million in order to “end racism in our city.”\u00a0\u00a0 Hans Bader in Liberty Unyielding notes<\/a> that Hillary Clinton\u2019s former national press secretary, Brian Fallon has also called for cutting police budgets across the country. \u00a0 Bader then explains why such calls make zero sense.\u00a0 “Cutting police funding will leave the police without the manpower needed to investigate and arrest many criminals. When that happens, it is disproportionately minorities themselves who will suffer.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After more than a week of rioting, looting, vandalism and violence, the Mayor of Los Angeles announced yesterday that he intends to defund the city’s police department.\u00a0 Apparently taking a cue from “Black Lives Matter” leaders who have said publicly that police should be abolished, Eric Garcetti suggested cutting LAPD funding by $100 to $150 million in order to “end racism in our city.”\u00a0\u00a0 Hans Bader in Liberty Unyielding notes that Hillary Clinton\u2019s former national press secretary, Brian Fallon has also called for cutting police budgets across the country. \u00a0 Bader then explains why such calls make zero sense.\u00a0 “Cutting police funding will leave the police without the manpower needed to investigate and arrest many criminals. When that happens, it is disproportionately minorities themselves who will suffer.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policing","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"\nL.A. Mayor Wants Less Police - Crime & Consequences<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=1266\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"L.A. 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