Mayor Eric Garcetti
Announces Budget Cuts to LAPD Garcetti announced he would be scrapping plans to increase the Los Angeles Police Department’s budget in a daily news briefing on Wednesday. The LAPD was set to receive an
increase from $1.189 billion to
$1.86 billion for 2020-2021. Mayor Eric Garcetti,
via news briefing Garcetti announced that in addition to
blocking the budget increase, he plans to
cut $250 million within the department. The mayor added that he plans to reallocate
the funding towards education, health, jobs
and the city’s black communities.