Los Angeles is such a poorly run city that Mayor Karen Bass has to weaken the city’s police department even further for budgetary purposes.

Bass announced that her proposed budget would include around 1,650 layoffs and the elimination of another roughly 1,000 unfilled jobs as the city tries to make up a deficit of around $1 billion. In this process, Los Angeles will still be increasing its budget by 8.2%. The deficit has been driven in part by a $259 million increase in labor contracts and weaker tax revenues as people have

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