Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, City Officials Cutting $100 Million-$150 Million From LAPD Budget, Funds To Be Reinvested In Communities Of Color

This article is really to give you an idea of just how much money is invested in POLICE.

On Wednesday, Los Angeles Mayor, Eric Garcetti, held an evening press conference, calling George Floyd’s death and the recent international riots as an “urgent moment” for the city, “an inflection point.”

He said he is “committed to making this moment not just a moment.”

Garcetti said he would be making commitments to creating racial equality. “It is time to move our rhetoric towards action to end racism in our city.”

He said the city must move beyond police reforms of the past. “Prejudice can never be part of police work…It takes bravery to save lives, too.”

“We will not be increasing out police budget,” said the mayor. That allocation is pegged at $1.8 billion in the mayor’s previously proposed budget.

Garcetti spoke of “reinvesting in black communities and communities of color.”

That’s a ridiculous amount of money, almost invested in the HINDERANCE of the human race, not just black people. Despite the police unit being formed under the “guise” of protecting the people, they are really protecting the rules of the elite.

Sending a man to jail for having weed does not change his life in a positive manner. Even the reform doesn’t work, because the jail time doesn’t create a mindset of FREEDOM and EXPANSION.

You are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with. So if you go to prison, chances are you get knew knowledge on how to commit crimes, unless you make God the person you spend the most time with inside.

Deadline News Reports: The mayor proceeded to announce $250 million in cuts to the proposed budget and to reallocate those dollars to communities of color, “so we can invest in jobs, in education and healing.” L.A. Police Commission President Eileen Decker then announced that $100 million-$150 million of those cuts would come from the police department budget.

L.A. City Council President Nury Martinez made it official Wednesday by introducing a motion to cut LAPD funding, “as we reset our priorities in the wake of the murder of #GeorgeFloyd. This is just one small step. We cannot talk about change, we have to be about change,” Martinez tweeted.

The mayor said he would be more specific about where those monies will go in his Thursday night press conference, and that the funding would be distributed “now, not years from now.”

Garcetti also declared a moratorium on putting people in the gang data base, requiring police officers to always report bad actors and increasing discipline against those officers who break the rules.

“We need to move toward a guardian-based system,” said the mayor, “by developing long term relationships between our youth and police officers.”

This comes after Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore on Monday compared looters to those officers involved in George Floyd’s death.

Garcetti announced a Civil and Human Rights Commission that will have its first meeting next week, with a promise to have the department up and running by July 1. In that department will reside an Office of Racial Equity to help the city “apply and equity lens to everything we do.”

“We can’t walk to the promised land in a single day,’ said Garcetti, “but this is a start.”

NOW, THAT is beautiful and well said.

As to LAPD Chief Michel Moore he is now facing a growing political storm over comments he made Monday night — but quickly retracted — about looters.

The chief said looters across Southern California over the weekend were “capitalizing” on the death of Floyd.

“We didn’t have protests last night — we had criminal acts,” Moore said during a news conference with Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti on Monday night. “We didn’t have people mourning the death of this man, George Floyd — we had people capitalizing. His death is on their hands as much as it is those officers.”

Moore apologized minutes later, saying he “misspoke when I said his blood is on their hands” and that he regretted “that characterization.”

Too late. The entire internet and many Los Angelos residents are now calling for the Mayor to step down.

Here is the thing, we are asking people who have VERY little empathy for black lives, to actually care. They can’t. His response was old and tired. It was rhetoric spoken from the mindset of a man who sees blacks and unequal, violent, brutal and non human.

What he said came from a slave master mind, where property is more important to him, than black lives.

The property on the other hand is insured. Black people who die at the hands of police are often uninsured in life and justice.