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Los Angeles now has more cops in the Department than ever before--9,895 active-duty sworn officers, to be precise--but Chief William Bratton said yesterday "he will ask the federal government to allocate billions more from the economic stimulus package to law enforcement agencies across the country to combat a potential rise in crime triggered by the worsening economy," according to the Daily News. The Chief would like to see hundreds more police added to the LA force; despite our growing ranks, the LAPD remains "one of the smallest per-capita departments of any major city in the country." In addition to a likely increase in "property crimes, domestic violence and shoplifting," other concerns regarding safety in LA include terrorism and the potential for trouble to cross our border due to the violence caused by Mexican drug cartels.
LAPD Chief Wants Federal Bucks to Buy More Cops
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Begley is a raving nutball and he is dead wrong. StrokerMcgurk
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Funny, I don't remember them asking for fewer resources when the economy was doing good.
From the LA Daily News article linked here:
There are so many assumptions here (and some inferred causal associations). For example, law enforcement is the key to economic recovery? Unsure of that one.
I can think of a few other ways that extra stimulus money can help folks in LA. (job creation, infrastructure creation, etc) And you can't police yourself out of a depression.