cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19641276
That does include parking enforcement. Which is done through that half of Townhall. Oh yeah, that’s the other part. They get literally half the real estate of town hall which is delightfully unsubtle.
But yeah, remember specifically that freaking the cops taking on all of these duties, or having these duties thrust upon them outside of their control whatever version of this that you buy into,. Having a whole bunch of unrelated social functions being addressed under the regions of the police forces is the criticism, it’s not some separate part. Why, does parking enforcement or local security or non union road crews get organized and paid from the police department instead of the local government?
My town:
"We're going to reduce the increase in the police budget from a planned $260 million a year to $224 million a year."
"ZOMG! YOU'RE DEFUNDING THE POLICE!"
(Somehow $1 billion in 4 years is "defunding").
City budget is $8.2 billion. 224 million / 8.2 billion = 2.73%.