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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
For comparison Vancouver spends around 20% on the police, if you are spending 54% to police a massively more crime ridden hole then your cops are seriously ####e at what they do and maybe a root and branch pruning is required
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That tweet is misleading because it's 54% of discretionary expenditures and not the entire budget. When comparing to Vancouver or Calgary PD, the per-capita (city resident) spending is pretty similar. LAPD is $1.857B for about 4M residents, Vancouver PD is $340M for 700K residents. Calgary PD is about $500M for 1.3M residents.