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   Taggart :donor: (mttaggart@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 02:06:50 JST Taggart :donor:

   The claim in that graffiti is false. LAFD's budget has increased.

   Bass also took heat from far-left activists online, who accused the mayor of cutting the fire department’s budget in order to pay for a costly new contract with the city’s police. Also weighing in against her was Patrick Soon-Shiong, the politically idiosyncratic owner of the Los Angeles Times, who echoed the attack, posting on X that “the Mayor cut LA Fire Department’s budget by $23M.”

   That assertion is wrong. The city was in the process of negotiating a new contract with the fire department at the time the budget was being crafted, so additional funding for the department was set aside in a separate fund until that deal was finalized in November. In fact, the city’s fire budget increased more than $50 million year-over-year compared to the last budget cycle, according to Blumenfield’s office, although overall concerns about the department’s staffing level have persisted for a number of years.

   https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/08/wildfire-threatens-karen-bass-extended-honeymoon-00197228

   https://todon.eu/@RadicalGraffiti/113798831441562765

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     Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide (infoseepage@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 04:26:11 JST Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide

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     @mttaggart The LAPD budget is $3.3b. The LAFD budget is $880 million. Maybe those numbers should be reversed.

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     Taggart :donor: (mttaggart@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 04:30:45 JST Taggart :donor:

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     • Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide

     @Infoseepage I'd be fine with a much more aggressive reallocation.

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     Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide (infoseepage@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 04:30:45 JST Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide

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     @mttaggart Half my city's annual PD budget would pay for a market rate studio apartment for every unhoused person in the city. I'm for radically smaller police budgets and for that money to be allocated to directly funding better civic infrastructure and social programs.