The LA 2024-2025 budget slashed about $17.6 million from the fire department, while increasing the budget for the police force by $126 million, according to figures from the Los Angeles City Administrative Office.
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Hi Jemele:fan of your work since your Page 2 days! You may not see this since your post has blown up, but LAFD's budget was ultimately not cut. Their labor deal was just negotiated a little later than LAPD's, after the budget process. Both departments were treated the same
Patrick Soon-Shiong, the politically idiosyncratic owner of the Los Angeles Times posted on X that “the Mayor cut LA Fire Department’s budget by $23M.”
That assertion is a lie. In fact, the city’s fire budget increased more than $50 million year-over-year compared to the last budget cycle
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Hi Jemele:fan of your work since your Page 2 days! You may not see this since your post has blown up, but LAFD's budget was ultimately not cut. Their labor deal was just negotiated a little later than LAPD's, after the budget process. Both departments were treated the same
That assertion is a lie. In fact, the city’s fire budget increased more than $50 million year-over-year compared to the last budget cycle