Has it? Because LAFD had $17,553,814 reduced from its budget and LAPD had a $126 million increase in budget. Clearly some money moved around. Would love to see your source.
lmao, what an argument for them to make. “It’s not a budget cut, the unions fought us, won, and made us hand over more money after we slashed their already hilarious low budget!”
This has been debunked
Has it? Because LAFD had $17,553,814 reduced from its budget and LAPD had a $126 million increase in budget. Clearly some money moved around. Would love to see your source.
Source: https://www.verifythis.com/article/news/verify/money-verify/yes-los-angeles-cut-176-million-from-the-lafd-fire-departments-budget/536-4b902910-08f5-42d5-bc5e-bdfad1cb0560
The new budget was increased over the previous year.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/los-angeles-mayor-karen-bass-pushes-back-criticism/story?id=117512817
lmao, what an argument for them to make. “It’s not a budget cut, the unions fought us, won, and made us hand over more money after we slashed their already hilarious low budget!”
Yeah, I don’t think taking $17m from $837m results in this. If anything, it might have something to do with those cat 1 hurricane level winds.