L.A. Mayor Karen Bass Cuts 400 Police Department Jobs in ‘State of the City’

Los Angeles, California – Mayor Karen Bass tried to achieve an optimistic tone when she delivered the bad news on Monday in her “city state” speech, reducing 400 civil jobs in the Los Angeles Police Department next year.

He Los Angeles Times Reported:

The mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, launched a proposition budget on Monday that would eliminate a financial gap of almost $ 1 billion by reducing more than 2,700 positions in the city, approximately 1,650 of them through layoffs.

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The $ 14 billion spending plan, which covers fiscal year 2025-26, would provide funds for dozens of new contracts in the Fire Department, three months after the Palisades fire destroyed thousands of homes and killed 12 people.

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In the Los Angeles Police Department, more than 400 workers would be attacked for layoffs, all of them civilians, cordination to the figures prepared by the city’s budget officials. The number of police officers would continue in their gradual career down, with new hiring that fails to follow the wear and rhythm.

Bass also said that the recovery and construction process after the Palisades fire was the fastest in the history of the State:

Today, by informing about the state of our city, I inform Los Angeles that recovery in Las Palisades is on the way to being the fastest in the history of California. We not only move fast to move fast. We know that the faster we can rebuild, the faster we can heal. We still have a long way to go, and for those who have lost a house, every day is a day too long. We want to be fast, we want to be safe and we want to be resistant.

We have issued permits to rebuild twice faster than after the camp of the camp and Woolsey, we restored the water almost a year and a half faster than after the camp of the camp, and restored the energy in just two months. Los Angeles, you surface the reconstruction is underway.

Many residents, frustrated by delays in the elimination of rubble, construction permits and payments of the insurance company, would not agree.

Bass said the city would begin using AI technology to accelerate the approach construction permissions process, and asked the City Council to “approve an ordinance to renounce all controls of plans and permissive fees so that Angelos can get home.”

However, skeptical residents are running out of time. And many refuse to forget that he was out of the country when the fires exploded in January, breaking a campaign promise to reject international travel.