Los Angeles needs more cops; city squanders money elsewhere

Los Angeles needs more cops; city squanders money elsewhere

Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell just put an extraordinary number on what it would take to adequately police America’s second-largest city: 12,500 officers. The LAPD currently has 8,551. “We’re not even in that ballpark,” McDonnell told the California Post in an exclusive interview. Los Angeles is nearly 4,000 officers short of what its own…

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