Los Angeles starts to defund its police

Los Angeles starts to defund its police 

Hillary Clinton’s former national press secretary, Brian Fallon, called “for police departments to be defunded across the country,” reports The Hill. 

Meanwhile, the City of Los Angeles, which recently witnessed violence and looting, is planning to partly defund its police department. The staunchly progressive city plans to cut its police department budget by $150 million. 

As Adam Ford notes: 

Mayor Eric Garcetti announced an enormous transfer of city funds at a press briefing Wednesday, with $100 million to $150 million being stripped from the Los Angeles Police Department’s budget and reallocated to “black communities and communities of color.” … 

“It is time to move our rhetoric towards action to end racism in our city,” the mayor said. L.A. City Council President Nury Martinez on Wednesday then officially introduced the motion, tweeting that it was “to cut funding to the LAPD, as we reset our priorities in the wake of the murder of #GeorgeFloyd & the #BlackLivesMatter call that we all support to end racism. 

Vlad Tepes Blog comments:

This is just one small step. The motion begins by condemning U.S. society as inherently racist, saying: This is of course, pure communist theory in action, as advocated by the DSA, or communist core of the Democrat party as it is today.