LA County increases police funding by $36 million after defund movement backfires
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The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority voted Thursday to boost its contracts with law enforcement by $36 million through the end of this year amid a spike in crime across the city.
It comes as Los Angeles deals with a spike in crime throughout the city. "Our hope is that the public and the board understand that we’re trying as a staff to get to a good balance here in terms of policing on our system, trying to get to a happy medium here understanding both perspectives," LA Metro CEO Phillip Washington said before the vote, according to CBSLA. "I do understand both perspectives, from a lived experience as an African American male, I understand completely what we are saying about policing, but also as someone who reviews every incident report on the system, I do believe we need some level of security on the system."More Related News