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They did the math: cost of LAPD

https://go.getvoyager.app/lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/15048373
teft - 6mon

What’s up with your link?

Can you just link to the post instead of some share link?

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Boomkop3 - 6mon

Looks like they posted from a somewhat racist instance then had their app repost it here?

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Boomkop3 - 6mon

Looks like a high estimate. Regardless, these kinds of public services are necessary, it'll have to be paid somehow.

But also.. aren't these financial reports public?

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acockworkorange - 6mon

I don't know the first thing about LA, but I don't see how the finances wouldn't be public.

I think another way to look at it is whether this well spent money, aka the Defund the Police angle. You could have a working Social Services department doing a lot more good with some of that money. That way social workers could actually prevent crime instead of sending police after the fact to shoot, beat, and arrest marginalized people.

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Boomkop3 - 6mon

Every time that happens there's people yelling that that's unfair to those who are well off

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