Ana Kasparian
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard Jul 2025
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And I've talked to other social workers about what their experience has been like.
And they're like, I actually interviewed one for a piece I wrote for Real Clear Investigations.
And she told me,
Look, it hasn't really worked out the way people have thought it would work out.
Oftentimes, we'll go to a call, and it's supposed to be a nonviolent person or, yeah, a nonviolent call.
Someone's having a mental health episode.
But they'll show up, and oftentimes, it'll be someone who does have a weapon.
It's not a gun, but it's maybe a knife.
And they feel...
threatened, so they have no choice but to call the police.
And so in 2021, the Los Angeles City Council was inspired by BLM, and they decided to take $150 million away from the LAPD's budget and instead invest it in other services.
it actually ended up being even more, we're spending more on police, more on the LAPD than we ever have, like record amounts.
And the reason why is because you have to really ask yourself before you make these decisions, okay, do we need this many officers?
Let's compare Los Angeles to other huge cities.
What's the police officer or sworn officer to citizen ratio?
And in LA, it's always been historically lower, much lower than other major cities.
So at the peak of the LAPD and the number of sworn officers in the LAPD, we had about 10,000.
After the cuts and after all the difficulty in recruiting new sworn officers, because people don't want to be police officers anymore for understandable reasons.
It's not a desirable job when you have people constantly, you know, talking about how terrible cops are.
So now we have about 8,500 officers
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